IABU but I need to vent!

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I have a 7 week old baby who I am EBFing (out of laziness more than anything else).

My friend gave birth to her baby over Christmas.

Just seen on Facebook my friend and her DP have been put on a date night. Their baby is three weeks old FFS!! How??!!

It's made me really irrationally angry.

I want a date night!

OP I get you.

Slight thread hijack - somebody help me. DS Is 14 months and has always been EBF because he has point blank refused to drink milk from a bottle, cup or anything else (so OP I advise you to introduce the occasional bottle or you might get stuck like me). He goes to nursery now so I don't feed him in the day. But I've always BF him just before bed. Every single night. Also BF him back to sleep when he wakes at 4/5am and I bring him into bed with me.

What do I do? How can I stop without upsetting him? I want a date night! Never had this problem with DD because she always had a bedtime bottle so I could leave her with anyone.

I went down the pub with my brother leaving my parents to babysit when Dd was 4 weeks old. (DH was working away so i went to my parents for the week).

To be fair i was recovering from an emcs after a horrible hg and spd pregnancy and was majorly suffering from cabin fever. A few hours off was just what I needed. DD was FF but i would have expressed and left a bottle if not. She was a very easy baby.

I get it. My EBF DD is 6 months and thanks to being a bottle refusing, generally stroppy little madam for most of that time I haven't been able to have any significant amount of time away from her. I have been massively jealous of mum friends who've had nights out and have even been jealous of their hangovers!
It's all well and good to say just get a babysitter and go but that would never have been possible for us, we're only now getting to the stage where we can leave her and soooo looking forward to some grown up time!

tallulahoola my boy is the same, but, actually, when I bit the bullet and left him with a babysitter who he knows well and some bottles, it was fine. He has a bottle and falls asleep being cuddled, and if he wakes he has a bottle and a cuddle and drops back off. He only took a bottle properly after he was on solids, was having NONE of it when tiny.