Baby's First Time without Mom and Dad
Date night tips please!! So this will be our first time alone without our daughter (14mo). She's literally never been without at least one of us, mostly me.
I would either put her to bed before you go or come back before bedtime. You could always have your mom try and put her to sleep the night before to see how it goes. If all goes well then you can have reassurance that everything will go fine on date night and won’t have to worry.
It probably won't traumatize her but she'll be in a new place for a bit. Why not just put her to bed before you go out? Her bed time shouldn't be too late since she's 1. We always put our dd to bed before going out. It's boring for my mil but then I can be assured she goes to bed on time.
What time does she go to sleep? When my daughter was younger we would put her to bed and then go out on date nights. It was a boring babysitting job for our parents but my daughter was happier this way. We would also sometimes do an early date night and just put her to bed when we got home. After a couple days around your parents she might be willing to stay up a tiny bit later watching a movie and having special snack. I would never go more than an hour outside of normal bedtime routine as we pay for it the next day with cranky kids. Good luck everyone needs some alone time
Same as the others. My LO goes down fine for babysitters but I feel better if I know I’ve put him down so we usually put him to bed before we go out. No matter what time we come home, he is none the wiser we’ve been out at all.