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Genuinely interested as this theme keeps coming up in my life due to recently having a baby.
Wellmeaning (?) Friends and family keep insisting that I should leave said baby overnight with grandparents etc., so I can both have a good nights sleep (we’re currently in sleep regression hell) or I can have a night out with my partner to reconnect and relax (this would be nice but we’re actually fine and happy with no issues).
Baby goes to grandparents for the odd few hours here and there every week and I do get some of my own time, not loads but enough.
At this point in time I’m not ready for baby to stay out. One friend (childless) who keeps saying how when she has a baby will enlist family to help for at least 2 overnights a week is repeatedly commenting how I should start letting my baby do the same.
I won’t go into the personals of mine or my parents parents but for work and health reasons this isn’t even something I’d ask them to do even if I felt I or baby were ready.
So all personal choice but I’m interested, am I the minority to feel I do not want my baby away overnight whilst he is still young (5 months) or is it quite the done thing?
I don’t want him never to stay with family, just maybe when he is sitting up, fully weaned, sleeping better etc.
Bit of a ramble but it’s one of those subjects every Tom dick and Harry wants to lecture me on since I got pregnant!