This Mom Left Her Sleeping Baby Alone in a Hotel Room To Go Have Dinner

She didn't agree with the table's consensus though.

"It was my turn to be shocked. I'm sorry, but if you think that, you are letting a fear of the unknown - or at least the highly unlikely - run your lives," she wrote.

Parents today have the tools to be able to be out of earshot of their bundle, thanks to the help of baby monitors. You can hear and see anything your little one does and be able to be back to their side in a minute, if they need you. These monitors do have a range though.

"Ours stretches just 15 metres and so, last weekend, it did not reach our table. We ended up going back to our room to check on our daughter - who is a very sound sleeper - every 20 minutes, while staff assured us that they would let us know if they heard a cry in passing," she admits.

She defends her position, by explaining the risks are too small to waste an evening sitting with her daughter in silence, in the dark hotel room. "And definitely too small to make me avoid hotels entirely. I don't think that makes me naive, or reckless," she writes.

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