We've been invited out to dinner with friends on Saturday and have the choice of either a) booking a babysitter from an agency that DD (aged 13 months)does not know (no-one else she knows is available) or b)taking DD with us to dinner, putting her to sleep in a travel cot, and then waking her up to put her into a buggy to take her home. We live about 7 mins walk from our friends.
Thoughts? DD doesn't usually wake up in the evening, so would a babysitter be the better bet? And does anyone have experience of how their DC did react when they woke up and found themselves at the mercy of a strange sitter....?