Thursday, 07 August 2008
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Getting Away: Night Out Without Baby in Tow
by Mama Hippo 
We introduced bottles early with D, and he took them well at first. It allowed me to get out of the house a couple of times to have lunches with friends in those early months. We tried giving him a bottle on most days to keep him "used to it" but then we started slacking and before we knew it, he started refusing when we tried giving him one or making him take 1-2 oz at a time and stopping. After about 2-3 months of age, D refused to have anything to do with bottles, so he's been exclusively breastfed since then.I haven't really minded this. He's been fairly easy-going when I take him out with me, and I also keep the expectation that if I go meet friends in town, I may need to leave early... and that's ok. Luckily he's been sleeping well enough at night that I occasionally get to go out after he's gone to bed-- we did this several times when visiting family in Texas last month. Tonight, my sister who's in town visiting right now, will stay home with D so I can have a ladies night out. I don't get these breaks all that often, but that's ok. I've accepted that I can't be away from D for too long, as part of what it means to be his mother right now and my commitment to breastfeed him.
I have lately found myself fantasizing about what it will be like when he's old enough to go hang out at Grandma's for the day, or even a whole weekend (gasp)!
The freedom is almost mind-boggling, lol. I'm not in any hurry for him to grow up, as I know that will come on its own all too soon. But as I enjoy the present it's also nice to think about what is to come, and how nice it will be when he's a bit older and I get to have a bit more freedom from time to time.
When did your little ones have their first sleepover away from you and how did you feel? Did you enjoy it, or did you feel guilt about leaving them?
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I left my little one when she was two months old, for two nights. My husband and I ran off to elope, leaving her with my mother. While it was nice to be baby free, at the time I couldn't appreciate it. But I'll tell you now, even getting to go to the grocery store alone is exciting! I love her and I love taking her places with me but the in and out of the car seat does get tiresome! I miss those infant days when the whole seat came out and off you went!
I left my daughter with my husband for an hour one day to go to the zoo. I didn't like it, it felt like something was missing, kind of like I had misplaced my wallet or something.
I can't deal with the thought right now. LOL. I look forward to November and getting to hold her and treasure her too much to start plotting a night out without her already. I'm sure the honeymoon period will blow-over before I know it, but I plan on enjoying every minute of it while it lasts.
I was at the ER for quite awhile when M was 2 months old. Otherwise, we haven't left her for too long. The most is a few hours with the grandparents for weddings. She does great now (18 months), but before when I was still nursing her she didn't really take the bottle either with anyone. I have no idea what I'll do when she has to go off to preschool.
At 7mos my daughter is still pretty much exclusively breastfed, she refused the bottle around 2mos much likeyour baby... And even now she'll mostly just play with the sippie. I'm not planning on weaning her. I hope to let her nurse as long as she wants to (with in reason, I think 3 is the latest cut off I'd consider going to) ...So It's looking like we'll be attached at the boob for at least another year if not 2. And to be honest (at this point) I don't mind. I can't stand the thought of leaving her some where. Now that she takes solids (well she'll play at it doesn't get much in her) I can leave her for an hour or two and know that the hubby or my Mom can give her a little bit of food to hold her over till I get back (she sitll nurses every 2 hours, goober!) those little trips out alone or with my husband are great. But we always miss her so much, we try to have at least 15 minut of baby-free convo...But we're so in love and she's our favorite subject.
I think that's how it should be... Like you said they grow too fast, I'll just take every bit of her I can get because I'll blink and she'll be grown and gone. And even when she's school age we'll definitely be sending her to Nana's for the weekend! :0)
Hubby and I went to Vegas for two days and two nights and I couldn't stop thinking about my baby!!! When we finally got to my mom's house (he spent the weekend at Grandma's) I ran up the stairs.