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Even though I don't always agree with my MIL, especially when it comes to food choices, I trust her at 95% with DS. My FIL and my own father are not going to be a useful babysitters until DS is around 12.

Out of our parents, only my dad and Stepmom. I don't trust my ILs with her, or my mom. I also have a BIL&SIL that I trust her with, and once I give my sisters some baby care lessons, I'll be ok leaving her with them!

I trust my IL's as far as her safety, but I wouldn't leave her with them for the day because they won't follow our rules.

My sister is great with Vi but she's really absent minded and easily distracted, and Vi has fallen off the bed, etc, in her care. So I don't leave Vi with her either.

My parents I trust completely. They always follow our rules and they are very careful.

LO isn't here just yet, but really I only trust my parents and sister. I know I will have to trust MIL at some point, so I need to just deal with it.

Our parents. A couple of our friends when he's a bit older maybe. I'm still pretty protective of him though.

@TurtleDoves: It stinks because she's a really fun grandma and she loves E so much but she can be so scatter brained! I can totally picture her forgetting e in the car while running errands or something because she gets distracted so easily.

My parents, SIL/BIL and MIL after bedtime.

My mom and dad 100%.

I do trust DH's parents, but not as much. MIL tends to be over doting to DS and they both smoke a lot. She'll also take him to her friends house when she's watching him, and I've had to tell her not to bring him to people's houses that I don't know. She doesn't have very good judgement about trusting people and if I don't know them, I don't trust them. She just likes to show him off, but it bugs me. But, in a pinch, I know we can trust them to watch him.

Not sure how I'll feel about them and a baby, but we'll take it a step at a time.

My mom and my sister, and that's it. My dad is a little scared of babies He'll be great when DS is older. My MIL and FIL don't know anything about babies and don't respect our wishes.

My mom and my dad (but probably not my dad on his own while she's this little). My DH's parents are older, so I would trust them to watch her for an afternoon, but not for anything overnight. Oh, and a couple of my close friends.

I don't fully trust any of our parents for a variety of reasons. I trust my mom for short periods of time, but not overnight. When we need someone reliable, we usually get one of our daughter's daycare workers as a babysitter. Our next door neighbors also work well in a pinch.

Trust to keep her safe and alive for a few hours?
Both sets of grandparents and most of our aunts and uncles.

Trust to follow our preferences, including not letting her cry...at all: Husband's grandma, husband's aunt and my sister (:

No one! lol, it's not that I don't trust them exactly but I have never left her with anyone other than DH. It wasn't helped by when we were visiting family last month and my mum DROPPED her. She was fine but yeah, didn't help me with my trust issues.

Pretty much everyone for a day or evening at this age. Overnight for a few days? MIL. She pretty much follows our rules and because she has been our part time childcare so far, she knows her wants/needs best.

my mama, either of my sisters, DH's mama, 3 of DH's sisters...

one of my sisters lives with us, so she's probably the one I trust most since she's looked after him the most and knows his routines. second would be my mama, then my other sister, then in a pinch (we only see them once every few years) DH's mama/sisters

My parents. They've taken care of my nephews since they were born. They're better equipped emotionally for it as well as having a kid friendly house.

I don't trust my in laws with LO. MIL's emotional needs and baby talk seem to hinder development. They don't listen to our guidelines and boundaries in the few times they watched him. Nothing like finding out they gave him something without your knowledge until months later. Even when she visited for that awful trip, she wouldn't listen to me or DH even it came to getting LO asleep or actually helping with chores. FIL/BIL aren't good around kids either.

We trust all the grandparents, but wouldn't leave both kids with a single person because we know it's a lot and we don't want to put that burden on them!

We also would trust our nanny who is a very close friend, a few other friends, and a couple of babysitters, but again, we don't like leaving both kids with just one person.

We don't have many rules for people to follow now that lmw is a little older, so it's really just a matter of who can wrangle both!

My mom and dh.
I have trust and control issues.
I'd leave the kids with my sister, mil, and the granddads, but I wouldn't trust that they could manage feeding and sleep time.

Mil and fil! My bil is pretty great too, but for shorter time periods.