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holiday related advice....

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nearlymumofone · 26/05/2011 14:19

Bit of a weird question maybe...

I'm going on holiday and staying overnight at a B&B in france while travelling down to our destination. My plan was to put my 10 month old baby to bed in his cot at the B&B with his monitor (and sensor pad!!- i know maybe a bit over the top at this age, but it's a habit i guess!) while i go down to have a meal. Obviously I'll have the monitor which goes off if there's no movement after 20 seconds, I plan to be down there for a couple of hours and will check on him frequently. It will be a B&B which is a house (probably with a handful of other guests) and I will be in the house/garden... I'm now thinking I shouldn't leave him in a different room from me (just seen a Maddie article, and actually feeling guilty now for thinking this was a good idea).

Honest opinions please....

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notnowbernard · 26/05/2011 14:20

Can't you take him with you to the meal?

I'd get him to sleep in his buggy then wheel him down

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nearlymumofone · 26/05/2011 14:23

not a bad idea but i've never done this before (he's very much in a routine where he goes down to bed 7pm every night) we have a long drive the following day so i would like to keep to his routine as much as possible- but it's not a bad idea, and i will consider it thank you.

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notnowbernard · 26/05/2011 14:24

It's a holiday though...

Routines go out the window (IME anyway)

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nearlymumofone · 26/05/2011 14:33

you're probably rigth- this'll be our first holiday so i'm new to it all.

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notnowbernard · 26/05/2011 14:37

It'll be great fun I'm sure

DC1 was about 10m when we went away for the 1st time. We did chill out and let the routines go by the wayside if only because we didn't want to be sitting indoors every evening from 7.30pm

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nearlymumofone · 26/05/2011 14:41

was it easy to get back into the routines on your return?

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notnowbernard · 26/05/2011 14:45

tbh the only routine we had really was bedtime (she was a pretty flexible baby wrt eating etc)

I don't remember it being too traumatic on return though (was a long time ago, mind!)

worldgonecrazy · 26/05/2011 14:51

We had a holiday recently and wanted a couple of hours 'grown up' time in the evening. We contacted a local babysitting company. The babysitter met us at dinner time, had dessert and a drink with us, and then either I or OH took our DD up to bed with the babysitter and settled her down and left her with the babysitter. We were lucky and had two great ladies, both of whom DD really took to, and were happy to leave her under their care for a couple of hours. Your B&B may be able to advise you. It cost about £10 an hour and we had the ladies for 2 hours each time, plus we gave them a bit of money to cover fuel. She just slept but I felt more relaxed knowing there was a responsible adult watching over her. When we go to our friends B&B we use a monitor but it is a very small and intimate B&B and no one can get upstairs without us knowing about it.

QuackQuackSqueak · 26/05/2011 17:56

I think usually on holiday the options are take dc down to dinner with you, either an early dinner when they will be awake anyway, or asleep in the buggy. If not possible then stay somewhere that you can have dinner in your room like a caravan.

I've always done one of those, not sure I'd bother to find a babysitter in a strange area when it's not a special occassion (to a wedding etc).

I think it's one of those things that you have to accept when you have children, that you won't be going out for long late night dinners on holiday anymore unless you have a child that will sleep happily in a buggy for hours.

Also on holiday I wouldn't worry so much about routine.

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