Date Nights?

bre87 · March 2011

how's everyone doing as a couple with the newborns, or at the tail end of your pregnancy? last night my mom kicked me and the boyfriend out the house. we've both been out with friends separately but nowhere together in a month. so we went out to eat and just sort of sat there. i'm like "what else do we talk about besides the baby" cause i haven't done anything non-baby related in seriously a month. finally we got back in the swing of things and had a decent conversation and i even knocked back (most of) a hurricane. i was subsequently wasted lol. then after dinner we couldn't think of anything else to do at 10pm on a saturday night, so we went back home. is anyone else this lame? i'm not exactly embarrassed because i am a parent now but still, what the hell do people do for date nights?

ckandi007 · March 2011

My mom stayed with us for a month to help us out with the baby...it was GREAT! She even made is go out a date so we went to dinner and a movie so we went to see Paul. I only called once to check up on Caleb...hehe. Now that she's back in MA, I don't see very many date nights in our future--especially since DH is still in school and we're getting ready to move and put our house up for rent.

CutieBean79 · March 2011

We went out for the first time last night. It was also my first time being apart from DD. We were SO lame and went to Pollo Tropical and Target. We were home in two hours and I missed her like crazy. We did talk about all sorts of things and joked around with each other which was nice.

StellarStina26 · March 2011

This won't be happening for a while. At least until she is a month old when I can get some pumping in and be okay with her taking a bottle. But, we have gone out to eat a couple times with the baby and it isn't so bad. We have always been home bodies anyway. Our date nights are watching a movie together or playing video games.

tistampsup · March 2011

My parents live 9 houses down, and my mom had the luxury of retiring at a younger age, so we have tons of help. I'm so thankful for this, too! They keep LO for us if we want to sneak out for a bite to eat, and they've even kept him overnight for us. Normally all 5 of us go out to eat together though. It's nice, and I'm so happy that my parents are such involved grandparents. I couldn't imagine doing this without their help.

A lot of mornings my mom will come down and sit with Jake while I sleep a little. It's the best gift ever.

mrsjanks · March 2011

tistampsup:

My parents live 9 houses down, and my mom had the luxury of retiring at a younger age, so we have tons of help. I'm so thankful for this, too! They keep LO for us if we want to sneak out for a bite to eat, and they've even kept him overnight for us. Normally all 5 of us go out to eat together though. It's nice, and I'm so happy that my parents are such involved grandparents. I couldn't imagine doing this without their help.

A lot of mornings my mom will come down and sit with Jake while I sleep a little. It's the best gift ever.

You are so lucky! My mom lives 2 hours away and can't move... she takes care of my 88-year-old grandma. She came for about a week when LO first arrived, but then she had to go back. She will be here again this weekend so DH and I can go OOT for his volleyball tournament. We will only be 2 hours away for 2 nights, but I know it will be so hard on me. I'm psyching myself out so that I will actually go and leave him with her. I really need a break and some sleep, so that's my motivation. I know he's in good care with her. I wouldn't be able to leave him with anyone else.

tistampsup · March 2011

mrsjanks:

You are so lucky! My mom lives 2 hours away and can't move... she takes care of my 88-year-old grandma. She came for about a week when LO first arrived, but then she had to go back. She will be here again this weekend so DH and I can go OOT for his volleyball tournament. We will only be 2 hours away for 2 nights, but I know it will be so hard on me. I'm psyching myself out so that I will actually go and leave him with her. I really need a break and some sleep, so that's my motivation. I know he's in good care with her. I wouldn't be able to leave him with anyone else.

At least she's only 2 hours away! That's awesome she's able to stay with him so you guys can get out!

Tarah716 · March 2011

I plan on getting date nights in at least once a month if not every other week. My parents live in Florida so they cannot watch him but my IL's are 15 minutes away and LOVE to watch him. They even took him overnight at 9 days so DH & I could get out with friends.

They are such a blessing - I'm so glad they're close by and so excited about their grandchild.

Twinkz · March 2011

StellarStina26:
This won't be happening for a while. At least until she is a month old when I can get some pumping in and be okay with her taking a bottle. But, we have gone out to eat a couple times with the baby and it isn't so bad. We have always been home bodies anyway. Our date nights are watching a movie together or playing video games.

This exactly. Redbox and/or Xbox are usually what our dates consist of.

hispenguin · March 2011

Since we're bottle feeding our LO we find it easy to get out. My mother is a neighbour of ours so she came over and watched DD for us on Friday night while we went out to dinner and then again on Sat when we had to do some errands and didn't want to take her to Walmart.

We do talk alot about DD while we are out though.

LovingStepMom · March 2011

Our date nights include LO right now...we haven't been without him since we haven't introduced a bottle yet....we plan to at the end of this week (and only by DH and if need be).

I told DH that in a week or two I'd like to go to dinner for an hour without LO and then begin to get integrated back into our old lives....may be difficult at first!

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