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 ?

@INeedNewShoes sorry I didn't mean it like that. I meant about how I plan my days around naps I just think about the pattern of when he will need a nap and then plan my things around that. I think everyone is doing a brilliant job being a mum is hard without us all competing for who is mummy no 1. I think this thread has really had its Day now

My DS is the same. He could sleep on me for hours. I've recently started to put him back in his crib for his naps with the monitor on. He wakes up after about 20-30 minutes which isn't like him but I'll keep persisting with putting him in his crib.
For meal times he sits at the table with us in his highchair (in recline position). He's 19 weeks so can't eat solids yet but seems to like sitting with us at the table and watching us haha.

@Bubs80 as @LisaSimpsonsbff has said people get really weird about baby sleep. I think it's a mix of anxiety and defensiveness. Just do what you think is best, you know your ILs and how they will respond. Good luck.

@PixieDustt yes my little boy sits with us at the table he really enjoys his meals . His naps can be quite variable if he is on me or next to me he has a decent 2 hour kip. Otherwise if I was to put him in cot he would just wake to be honest . He is ok in the pram. Not too bad at night OH my rocks him on the bed puts him in cot and then he usually wakes for dummy of couple times before we go to bed at 11 and then 4 am often comes into our bed and sleeps until 7. I just don't fancy sleep training to be honest any method I think as he gets older the sleeping through thing may happen but we do go some nights with just one wake up.

Op I’ve not come on to tell you you are doing it wrong, but i I want to gently point b out that it’s only the first baby who gets to have their mother to nap with. Unless you go for a massive age gap, subsequent kids will have to be put down to nap alone because you can’t leave a toddler downstairs for two hours.

I only say this because it didn’t occur to me with my first and ( maybe I’m more anxious than you) , I used to turn myself inside out to meet her needs, which was a bit stressful.

Anyway it’s probably all occurred to you already, and you don’t need a lecture.

But as for Christmas dinner, request it at 3 and come down rested.

Ps the “ sleep training “ I did was The No Cry Sleep solution by Elizabeth Pantly. Really good.

Can't believe how many replies I have had. I will change the subject now and say good digger on bbc is brilliant so far

Gold digger rather

OP I am a bit late to the party commenting here. My DS is a similar age (and sleeping worse even after some gentle sleep training ). I wondered when your DS wakes in a nap, is it regular? With DS, when we are away from home I can often get him to sleep on a bed or mattress and leave the room. I can then return at certain points and know I'll be back before he wakes. He tends to sleep in 40min cycles. Just a possible option if you want to leave the room. Sometimes I prefer to stay and rest anyway.

@BendingSpoons hi yes the thread has been rather lively . Yes He tends to wake probably 45 minutes in maybe 30 sometimes . It's strange just opens his eyes then goes back off if rock pram or put dummy in. In an ideal world want to stop doing this .i know what you mean this morning I walked 6 miles while he napped but I'd rather have a rest yes sleep been a little all over this week for us too. He had a nap Monday just 11-12 then decided that was it for the day lol

I think it would be ridiculously anti social to go upstairs and sleep/ watch your baby sleep for 2 hours on Christmas Day

My ds was 10 months his first christmas, we sat him in his high chair at the table. He had a mini christmas dinner whilst my mum was sorting everything to be put on the table, by the time he had finished, we were ready to eat, I put his comfort toy & his dummy on his tray with a couple of small toys. He played for a bit, then fell asleep, I reclined his seat & then was able to eat my dinner in peace.