Leaving 7 MO for a weekend

Hi all!

My husband and I are planning to go out of town next weekend and leave my 7 month old and I am starting to experience extreme guilt and nerves. This will be my first time leaving him— like I’ve gone to dinner without him three times since he was born.

Is it terrible to leave him at this age? I went back to work at 12 weeks, and his caregiving is split between a good friend of mine who nannies for me and my mom. For the trip, my mom will watch him during the day and my friend will do overnights at our house so he doesn’t have to leave. They both are with him all week so he knows and loves them, but he still wakes up typically once at night and I breastfeed him to sleep.

For context, it will be my 30th birthday and my husband and my 5 year anniversary and I somehow snagged reservations to an incredible bucket list restaurant for us and I’m really excited about going away with him and us having alone time, but as it gets closer I’m feeling sad and scared about leaving my LO.

I’m rambling but basically looking for other people’s perspectives on when they left their LOs and if it was okay 😭