I'm feeling like a Scrooge because I want to leave the dinner tomorrow night and come home for bedtime. My husband thinks I'm being inflexible (I'm cool with him staying at the party - he wants me to stay). They have a crib there, but it has bumpers and there's a 1% chance he will actually go down in it. I just don't want a cranky baby on my hands. What are you doing?
What is lo's sleeping situation during holiday dinners/parties 115 votes
Putting baby down at the party in a crib/pack n play/etc
Leaving early & putting lo to bed
Stretching bedtime and putting baby down late
I want Christmas-themed donuts
Re: What is lo's sleeping situation during holiday dinners/parties
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That said, this baby is pretty flexible. My older kid I would not have even considered a late night out of the house after he was about 6 weeks old. He would not sleep other places and a bad nights sleep affected us for a day or two usually (I mean, worse than normal since his normal night was a bad night anyway). Daytime I could usually get him to nap on me in the ergo. But we needed to be home for night sleep, and on time too.
Except DS has no set bedtime and sure as heck won't go to sleep until 8 at the earliest on a good night, but we don't like my dad's side of the family much soo we are totally using LO as an excuse this year(:
Tonight he fell asleep earlier than normal....but had been awake 13 hrs straight. So I put him to bed. ILs were over and I caught crap for it but told MIL tough luck. And no she couldn't gowatch him sleep and kiss him goid bye.
Can I have my donut now?
We are going to my moms for a get together and she has the works at her house (crib pnp etc) so hoping to just put her down in there.
I say leave when you want to. F-ing up the sleep schedule sometimes is just not worth it.
Either way have a great time
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