Mom Guilt Dooms Maggie Gyllenhaal's Vacation

The first getaway for actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and fiancé Peter Sarsgaard sans baby was supposed to take place this summer -- but it didn't, after the couple got cold feet. The 30-year-old actress tells Jimmy Kimmel that for months, she looked forward to the three-day beach vacation and even made plans to leave their 21-month-old daughter Ramona with Maggie's mom, screenwriter Naomi Foner.

When a friend of Naomi's predicted that Maggie wouldn't actually have the courage to leave without the baby, Maggie said, "There's no way." "I mean, I love being a mama," Maggie recalls thinking, "but I wanna go!" Nonetheless, she says, "we didn't go...we couldn't!" Maggie joked that she and Peter will work up the nerve to get that all-important time away from their daughter -- eventually. She says,

We'll go, we'll go. When she's a little bit older, we'll go. I'm sure, before she's, like, 15.

Ramona is the first child for the couple.

Source: Jimmy Kimmel Live; Photo by BauerGriffinOnline.com.