To eat Christmas dinner while baby naps?

[bubs80]

Baby normally naps 1-3 should we eat downstairs ( leaving baby upstairs in a travel cot and with baby monitor on) or just eat after with everyone ( and maybe baby will sit nicely in high chair and have a snack)

Baby will be10 months old. We are having dinner at in-laws arriving around 11 and baby will eat lunch around 12 before nap.

Baby currently has all naps in bed with me. It's lovely but will I be anti social if I do that Christmas Day lol

We don't yet have a travel cot

What's everyone else done Christmas day in terms of eating lunch around nap times ?

Mother in law has asked what time to serve I don't know what time to say.

Honestly? Tell her to serve whatever time she would usually plan.

DD, who was previously a total chilled out dream, decided to have her first hysterical inconsolable screaming fit literally as my mum set Christmas dinner down.

I really enjoyed how the cold congealed Christmas dinner tasted

If baby is still a good wee sleeper at that time, I think you’d be daft not to take advantage of it. I’m sure you’ve spent the last few months trying to eat dinner with one hand while amusing/feeding baby with the other. Give yourself a break on Christmas Day.

When my little ones were that age, we ate without them. Gave everyone a chance to eat with both hands and I could concentrate on conversation and feel like a fully fledged grown up at the table rather than having half an eye on the baby.
If baby normally naps with you, will s/he go down without you?

@SweetAsSpice awww I imagine something like that may happen to us . Baby always has comments like " he is such a happy baby " etc so yes fully expecting it lol. Yes normally around 2-3 so I thought ok that's fine he will be asleep ( usually I can't fully enjoy a meal if feeding baby too) so I thought that will be better but then I thought of the napping situation and if he will settle in a travel cot for 2 hours. Currently he tends to stir after a abit so i put dummy in and he goes back off. Our set up is nice and cosy rocking him off to sleep but I am aware won't be able to stay like that when back at work I haven't taught him to self settle yet. Other half said he will sit upstairs with baby while he naps but just don't want us looking silly 😛 and anti social

@Gustavo1 no I don't think baby would. He used to go off after being rocked in pram but sleeps a lot better just next to me in bed . He was always stirring and waking half way through in pram.

We used to have an almost entirely DS-free Christmas till he was about 2 Midday nap - champagne, canapes and exchange of presents. Then but dinner after he went down for the night. He did get his own presents and Xmas dinner - just segregated. In our defense, he was extremely hard work as a baby.

@MrGsFancyNewVagina I know I just really want to enjoy Christmas dinner because usually meals are spent half concentrating as feeding baby and giving them bits of what I'm having or cleaning up etc

Big dinner, not but dinner.....

Definitely enjoy your Christmas dinner while he naps. He'll be none the wiser and you'll get to relax.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan I often find my baby stirs or wakes half way through nap so it's easier to just be in bed with him and rock him or put dummy in if wakes . I think if we popped him down in a cot he would wake up. Still not sure whether to stay over either. If we don't stay over we will have to leave around 5 as it's over an hour away and don't want him falling asleep in car and ruining bed

At 10months I'd sit the baby in the high chair and put them a Christmas dinner on the tray and let them crack on.

@headlock sounds like a plan. Might have to buy a travel cot and get him used to it. He never naps in the cot so it's difficult always just next to me on bed

@SprogletsMum yes i did think of that but he eats lunch early at 12 and evening meal 5 so I thought odd times for people to eat usually they service Christmas dinner 2/3. I don't think it would go down well if I said get it all ready for 12 lol

Then I would say, eat whenever suits everyone. If baby is going to be up then let them have at a tray of food, if not, enjoy it. If he won’t sleep without you, then you won’t be able to have Christmas dinner while he sleeps.
On Christmas Day, I would say do anything and everything for a quiet life. One day out of routine won’t ruin anything

bubs ah yes, the neverending baby logistics. One of many things I don't miss! That and the way DS always managed to produce an enormous steaming pile of dung right before we sat down to a nice dinner.

@Gustavo1 I really don't mind just being upstairs with him and eating after( my partner has said he can do this instead) just worried we will look rude to people for disappearing for 2 hours ( I care far too much what others think sadly )

@JesusInTheCabbageVan haha I have tried just going with the flow before but the result is he doesn't nap for hours and hours ( 5 hours awake time) plus very grumpy then doesn't sleep . He isn't the kind of baby to just" drop off to sleep on a play mat" so keeping routine is key but can be restricting.

I would buy a travel cot and if he only naps for a short amount of time that's fine. It's only one day.

@Josette77 fab thank you . Would you also stay over ( rather than leaving at 5 however run the risk of noisy relatives and poor sleep all round )

2.30 is a reasonable time to start eating Christmas Dinner.

If people are happy with 2, then even better.

Baby’s naps and needs change all the time - I wouldn’t plan ahead for this. Baby might be teething and not wanting to sleep or generally be out of routine because of the whole ‘Christmas atmosphere’, opening presents, new toys etc. I wouldn’t plan dinner around naps, if they sleep they sleep, if they don’t they don’t - does it really matter that much?

I personally would probably not stay over but that's more my introversion than anything else!

@Josette77 same in an ideal world I would love just us 3 at Christmas but that's another thread entirely lol

Are you seriously suggesting you miss Christmas Dinner to go upstairs and make sure your 10mo naps?