Anxious about spending the weekend away

[Cupcakemummy85]

I was hoping to get some advise. My dd is 16 months and we r about to go away for the weekend to see my sister and my new nephew. We are staying in a hotel that only has a travel cot and is in the same room as myself and dh. So I'm a bit anxious about getting my dd to sleep at night an what my dh and I are supposed to do. Ie do we go to sleep or try and watch tv, (Actually I'm ok going to sleep at 7 as I'm pregnant an so so tired lol). Last time we stayed in a hotel she was 11 months and cried because she did not want to b in a travel cot an slept in bed with us. Problem is she won't do tht anymore. She won't sleep in the bed with us because she thinks it's playtime. I'm taking our own sheets with us and her sleeping bag and her little glow seahorse thing so it snells like home. I'm just getting very nervous she won't sleep and that peppa pig wil have to b on all night lol. It's really putting a black cloud over the whole weekend!
Why didnt I just ask if she could come to us. Travelling with a newborn is so much easier than a toddler :( I just can't say no.

Why doesn't your DD stay at home with your DH and you go to see your sister by yourself? DH and I always split visits like this (he went to see his sister and her new baby just last week). There's no reason to drag the whole family across the country.

It's a family thing, my parents are going and we r going as a family. I don't think I could leave my dd for a whole two days :( I cried just being apart from her for just a day, and they say children get separation anxiety lol

I just accepted my LO would be up with us until we went to sleep, and that not much sleep would be had by any of us! She screamed when put into the travel cot when we were in the same room, and eventually she went to sleep between me and OH about half an hour after we all went to bed (so about half eleven). You have my sympathies - it was good fun in a bizarre sort of way!

:) I think I will just have to try and keep my cool and like u said except that we will have little sleep. I just leave her to cry as we will b having people banging on our door lol. We r there for two nights too :( I am predictin the worst though so it might not b as bad.

Travel cot in the hotel room bathroom? Works great till u need to pee in the night, which you prob do 76 times at 7 mo preg! You could move it out when you go to bed though...

Is anyone else in your family staying in the same hotel? When DS was about 4 months old we went to a wedding and I booked rooms for us and my parents next door to each other and requested to be at the end of a corridor. So we put DS to bed and then took it in turns to go for dinner so there were always people in the room next door (with the door ajar so you could see into the corridor and that no one could go into our room) and the monitor on. Then we all just watched telly and had a glass of wine in my parents room. When we went to bed we got changed into pajamas in the bathroom and then crept into bed in the dark.