You are lucky if either of your parents are willing to take care of the kids. This should be the first choice because you can trust your baby with them. It is very hard to only be able to visit your baby once a week but I know people who does that and they still get by. Because they can concentrate on their work knowing that someone they trust is taking care of the child.

Try to arrange to see if possible for the parent to come down to your house instead. Then send them back to hometown during the weekends.

Second choice would be daycare centers. I do not think there are any centers that allow you to leave your baby there for 1 week. I wouldn't do that even if they allow unless it is someone I know and trust taking care of the baby.

Hiring a maid is not even a choice you should consider. They are hard to train...takes at least 6 month for the smart ones and more than 1 year for the dumb ones. Even then you cannot trust your maid with your baby together for whole day? That is absurd.

Nobody says taking care of baby is easy. You need to sacrifice a lot and change your lifestyle around the baby.