Leaving 6 month old overnight or...

[vanillacourage]

Leave her at home at your mom or sisters. Everyone will be fine.

It's one night and your baby isn't a newborn. Dragging a relative to the hotel with you seems like overkill IMO. Go have hot hotel time with your DH, you'll be glad you did.

[atouchofklasse]

Absolutely leave LO at home.

[sewpinkgal]

Even with J being a difficult newborn, we could have easily left him overnight at 6m. We just got back from our first overnight trip sans baby and it was great! Go and have fun!

[satama]

Leave the baby. Enjoy some alone time with your husband. You will come home relaxed and refreshed and ready for some baby snuggles.

[tardyfortheparty]

110% leave the babe & enjoy a night away!

[cricketwife]

I'm with everyone else on this - leave baby at home. I just wanted to say that your mom/sis are way better people than I b/c sitting with a 6 mo. old in a hotel room for 24 hrs sounds like misery. Let them be in the comfort of a home (theirs/yours/whatever).

[thedash]

I totally get your hesitation but I have to agree that you should leave LO at home. It will be more comfortable for everyone!

[mrshandy]

Leave her at home!

You can sleep in!

[shell403b]

We left E alone at home w/ my mom at the exact same age for the exact same reason (wedding). We were actually gone for 2 nights (we were about 45 minutes away--we could have come back home, but there were multiple wedding events Fri/Sat/Sun--and it was around the time of our 5 year anniversary anyway). H stopped by on the second day to pick up some clothes that he forgot, and to check on them, and everybody was fine. Baby was happy, fed, well-rested and Grammy was loving her one-to-one grandparent-baby time. Good times all around.

Leave LO at home. It won't be a big deal.

[minzy]

We did your first option for a wedding when our daughter was six months old, but we had to fly to the wedding and my in-laws drove an hour or so to meet us. They were thrilled to see her, even if it was babysitting at the hotel. I was also breastfeeding, including overnight, and I guess we were "those parents" that didn't feel right spending the night away from her yet. Whatever, it worked for us. Do what makes you both comfortable.

[frlcb]

Leave the baby at home and enjoy your evening - and sleeping in the next morning!

[ECB]

I agree- leave her at home. I left DS for the first time for an entire weekend when he was 6 months. He was w/ my parents and it went great. I missed him like crazy and couldn't wait to get back to him - but I was also REALLY happy to have my girls weekend that weekend!

[moandjo]

Yup - leave the baby and enjoy your time. I left DS for 2 nights at 3 months and it was fine. I think occasional time away is important.

[Ashley&Scott]

I totally understand not wanting to leave her, DS is 6mo & I'm not ready to leave him overnight yet. I would probably opt to have them at the hotel. I think you'll have fun no matter what you decide

[badtzmaru22]

I vote take the baby as well. I'm going to have almost the same situation in October, only the wedding is about 2 hours from here, and we have no family here. They are four-ish hours on the other side of the city where the wedding is. I am planning on taking DD with me. It will be two nights, and I just can't deal with that much extra pumping. SIL might come meet me to watch her also.

[aspentosh]

We did this a couple months ago and we brought my mom with us (paid for her food and hotel, naturally). I BF, so it was easier to bring her than pump and store milk.

We went up Friday night since DH was in the wedding party. Saturday I left for the ceremony, came back to nurse, left for the reception, and pumped when I got home. Not ideal, but not too bad.

[Deleted]

I couldn't do it. I'm just about ready to leave him overnight... but not quite.

Do what makes you the most comfortable. Don't worry about what others would enjoy more.

[Deleted]

I left DD overnight at 5 months. We all were fine.

[mollybrown]

I'd leave the baby with mom or sis overnight. She really will be fine. It's harder on the parents at that age.

I think it would suck for your mom or sister to spend 7 hours in a car, and be stuck in a hotel room for the rest of the time. They're presumably doing you a favor, so I would factor in the inconvenience to them as well.

[h]

I left DS1 overnight with my mom at 10 months, and he was still up (and nursing) multiple times a night. But my mom is a very, very high energy person, requires next to no sleep (she has never in the time that I have known her slept more than 4 hours a night), and is amazingly good with kids and parents the same way I do (or, rather, I parent the same way she did). She can handle my children at any age, and I trust her to do so. When DS1 was 3 she took him, my 3 year old niece, and my 5 year old nephew to Disney alone for three days (and flew alone with the 3 kids). At age 62. I wouldn't want to take three kids on a cross-country trip to Disney alone now. She is amazing/crazy. I would not have left my kids with anyone else why they were still up multiple times a night.

[nabum]

Jul 18, 2012 22:36:10 GMT -5 vanillacourage said:

Leave her at home at your mom or sisters. Everyone will be fine.

It's one night and your baby isn't a newborn. Dragging a relative to the hotel with you seems like overkill IMO. Go have hot hotel time with your DH, you'll be glad you did.

this.

[curbsideprophet]

Jul 19, 2012 10:02:18 GMT -5 @fivedogs said:

If I didn't have to pump, I would let her stay home with mom/sister. At that age, it was easier to be with her all the time and not worry about pumping. But if I were FF, it wouldn't have been an issue. So if you feel like you can leave her overnight, I would do it. Everyone will have more fun that way.

I agree with all this. At six months leaving DD somewhere else would have been more of a pain than just having her with me since I would have needed to pump.