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Original poster

...to take 4 mo baby on glamping hen do?

583 replies

TomBowler · 01/08/2017 23:18

I am MoH and bride asked me before I got pregnant but she knew we were TTC. I have offered to step down.

Baby is EBF. I don't pump and haven't tried a bottle. Not totally against it though.

Would be arriving on campsite Fri afternoon. I would boob DD to sleep about 7ish. Deploy video monitor (our group has excl use of campsite and DD and I have own tent). Return to group for silly games.

Saturday morning breakfast and It's A Knockout. Lunch. Saturday afternoon outdoorsy activity I wouldn't be able to do (pelvic floor, say no more) so will chill at campsite. Sat evening boob DD to sleep and Butler In The Buff coming to serve cocktails and not games.

Sun morning breakfast in farm shop.

OP posts:
Mittens1969 · 05/08/2017 10:46

I doubt it. They mostly don't when the majority are telling them they're BU, she's probably hidden the thread.

RatRolyPoly · 05/08/2017 12:33

The OP's been back loads, but I very much doubt she's going to bother telling us "what she's decided"; why would she?

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Aprilmightbemynewname · 18/04/2018 10:16

Ah thought an update was here!!!!

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Spammy poster reported. Fortunately they are so crap at spamming they keep effing up the formatting on their own links.

anamelikenoother · 27/02/2022 15:28

One of my bridesmaids brought their 5ish month old to my hen do and I didn't mind. I wanted her there more than I didn't want a baby. She definitely didn't get as drunk and raucous as she might have otherwise but it didn't stop the rest of us!
As long as you're not expecting her or anyone else to change their behaviour because your baby is there, and she really is fine with it, I don't see the problem.

anamelikenoother · 27/02/2022 15:29

Grin just noticed the date .. Late to the party...

LittleGwyneth · 27/02/2022 16:06

I would be horrified if someone brought a baby on a hen do I was going on. I feel like it completely changes the vibe. People will want to get wasted, have a stripper, maybe take drugs. It's just so not a place for a baby. Plus you're going to end up feeling pulled in two different directions and probably feeling absolutely utterly miserable.

LittleGwyneth · 27/02/2022 16:06

Oh FFS. Sorry.

ThatsNotMyGolem · 27/02/2022 16:12

The kid will be in school by now!

MintyFreshBreath · 27/02/2022 16:31

At my friend’s hen do one of the hen’s brought her baby as he was exclusively breast fed. Her husband came and had a room in the cottage we were staying in (it was massive) When baby needed feeding he brought the baby to her. It was absolutely fine and we all cooed over him.

Nanny0gg · 27/02/2022 16:34

ZOMBIE!!

FairWindClearSailing · 27/02/2022 16:37

You know it's a sids risk leaving 4 month old alone?
And that's only one of the issues with what you've suggested. Can't believe you are even contemplating this

FairWindClearSailing · 27/02/2022 16:39

Oh I should read the date more often 🤦🏼‍♀️

Bromse · 27/02/2022 16:41

I don't know how you can even consider going, frankly. Just tell your friend it isn't doable - because it isn't with such a young baby.

slashlover · 27/02/2022 16:49

@anamelikenoother

Grin just noticed the date .. Late to the party...
Did you not see the warning that the thread was over a year old before you posted?
KarmaStar · 27/02/2022 16:50

No.in your head everything will go as you have typed.
Reality?
No.not a chance.do not go.
Say now that you are not going.
Meet hens for an afternoon tea another weekend.
Please do not attend this event with the baby.
But you know in your heart anyway.🌈

Yoyokitten · 27/02/2022 16:54

Ding Dong Denny. I totally agree with you. Makes me cringe

OfstedOffred · 27/02/2022 16:55

I'm sorry but this really is a terrible idea.

Nanny0gg · 27/02/2022 16:56

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Yoyokitten · 27/02/2022 16:57

Oops the little girl will be nearly 5 now. Just noticed the date

1forAll74 · 27/02/2022 17:12

No way. Might have been ok, if you had a nice motor home on the side, just for yourself and baby. !

AngelinaFibres · 27/02/2022 17:58

@TomBowler

DingDong - I hate the phrase too. Couldn't think of anything better at the time. Now obviously have thought of a million better ways of expressing (geddit?!) myself.

No other children. Among the 16 invitees only one other is a parent - she has a 2yo and a 4yo.

40 mins from home so could easily run away.

So only 1 other is a parent and you are proposing to take a baby. Nope. No way. You need to change the way you feed if you really, really want to go . Or continue feeding as you are, but opt out of the weekend . Babies and hen dos do not mix.
HappyDays40 · 27/02/2022 18:26

I wouldn't appreciate a baby coming along to a hen do unless it was kind of a planned thing ....oh and you can just feed your child "boobing" sounds weird.

Chilesstanton · 27/02/2022 18:32

Nope nope nope