Walking at night with a baby

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I often go for a walk at night with my DC because it helps her get to sleep (DC in a pram) and I always feel like a criminal like I shouldn't be out so late at night with a child. It is normally quite late like between 9 and half ten. I feel like I'm breaking a curfew or something!!! Has anyone else ever felt like this haha

I did this with dd. It was the only way she would stop crying. Colicky baby.

Ahh I feel so much better after reading all these haha!

@throwawayagain thanks for sharing that is so lovely such a shame he passed. There was an old Irish gentleman who lived a few doors down from me when I was little who thought my mum was his wife who had died in the war, reincarnated! He was a lovely chap your story reminded me of him

The only things that bothered me about going out late at night was what people thought and also Im scared of the dark! But I can get past the darkness bit and also feel a lot better knowing most people will know why I'm out so late with a baby and think nothing of it!

We used to often take our ds for walks at 3-4 in the morning so don't feel too bad.

To get him to sleep of course (we didn't actually want to go for walks at such a time)

Perfectly normal IME! I don't believe that tiny babies need a strict 7pm bedtime personally and I wouldn't think anything weird about you walking around with a pram at that time. DS went through an awful phase where I used to have to walk around with him at about midnight - 2am and I lived in a crap area so it probably wasn't very safe. But it was a short enough phase and it made me feel sane at the time. We got through it. He sleeps through the night now. Sleeps like a log in fact.

I spent a lot of time at the 24hr starbucks drive through when my twins were tiny! No judgement from me!

t is normally quite late like between 9 and half ten. I feel like I'm breaking a curfew or something!!!

That's not late.

Treasure these moments - you've just reminded me of what I did with my babies. Whatever works as sleep is so precious!

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Ignoring the bit about Nursery. There is a lovely paragraph on night walking with a baby

I would probably only see you because I would be driving past trying to get my children off to sleep in the back of the car.

I was out with the pushchair at 2 or 4 am on many a night with DD1. I lived in a safe area but always stuck to the busiest routes in order to feel safest. One night DH was walking DD1 in the pushchair around 11pm and he was stopped by police asking exactly what he was doing.

Very normal.

I have really nice memories of the couple of months in summer 2017 when I used to go out every evening and walk a mile or two with DD while she drifted off. It was really lovely. When they are little they aren't really forming long-term routines, so you can do whatever works.

9.30-10? It's fine OP. I walk the dog at midnight sometimes. I love the peacefulness of it.

Anyone who's had a baby or been closely involved in the first few weeks or months of a baby's life will know exactly what you're doing and why and probably looking on sympathetically.
A few months ago, if I left work at 6.30, I always went past twins in a pram being pushed by dad or a grandparent. I haven't seen them for a few weeks now and often think about them. I am desperately hoping that they have grown out of it and now in a regular bath/feed/story/sleeping through the night routine -which my DC never managed--

It's very typical here in Spain where we live, people often have babies and toddlers sleeping in the buggy and are walking around at midnight in the summer.

My ex used to this . He got stop by the police once . We did not do it offen . I never did as we lived in ifft0y area . I did walk round and my parent garden a few time . Scared the hedgehogs .

haha,you should see us

as both kids dont sleep(majoy sen issues each) and dont go to school(home ed) we regularly go food shopping/McDonald at 2/3am and end up at the beach eating it

never been asked or had any comments

I used to do that all the time. I was worried something would happen. But I looked up the crime stats in my area and found much more happens during the day which made me feel safer

Colicky dd was driven around by now ex - combination of getting her settled and giving me a break.

When she was teething back teeth he was on deployment and I didn't like going out late at night but she'd be in the pram with me wheeling her round the house until I was knackered then I'd sit in rocking chair, foot on shopping tray of pram and rock us both to sleep. Frankly I'm amazed I've not got one leg much more muscular than the other!!

We do the most bizarre things out of necessity!

I love late night walks with my baby! I was so glad I had a summer born baby this time around because I'm so far North it can still be light at 11pm and then the sun comes up around 3am. I'm out at all hours this time of year!

It's not wrong!!! I'd have done it if I'd have lived where I live now (leafy suburbs) rather than where I lived when mine were babies (on a main road backing onto a farm and country lane). Instead I used to shove them into their car seats and drive down the motorway to the nearest services, get a drive thru coffee and drive home with them asleep

I'm lying on the sofa right now, while mine rolls around wide awake.
We walked at 9.30pm, no luck so drove at 10pm. Success.
Clearly DC thought it was a wonderful nap, and here we are.
Do what you have to do. This is every night (minus the waking up usually) but DC is rarely asleep before 10.30pm. And I have tried EVERYTHING. 😴

My DD used to go out every night for a walk in the sling with DP. It must have been cold one night because he'd zipped his coat around her ... the police stopped him and asked him to open his coat which he dutifully did. Suffice to say they weren't expecting a baby to be underneath!!

Enjoy your walks op!! Hope you're getting a decent amount of sleep once she's off.