Tips for taking a baby out of their routine?

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DS is now 5 months old and since he was 6 weeks old we have had a bathtime-story-feed-bedtime routine. He goes down easily and sleeps well (I know we are very very lucky! )
Tomorrow night we are going to a special meal at a friend's house and we need to take Ds. We will need to leave home at 6.15 to arrive at friends at 6.45 which is when we would normally start bedtime routine. Wwyd to make it the least disruption to his routine? eg, bath before we go? (But it seems mean to bath him then put him in his snow suit and get in the cold car ). Would you put him to bed at friends in the travel cot? But then he may not go down easily and would bw disruptive to friends dinner if we have to keep resettling him. Or keep him up with us and just do bedtime routine when we get home even though it will be approx 10.30?
Your tips appreciated.

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My dd is the same age. I would bath at a completely different time in the daytime, or not at all, then put her down at as close to normal time as possible in the travel cot. She has slept well when we have been away and tried this. The worst that can happen is you get him up again if he keeps waking. Good luck!

Once I tried to keep dd up a little longer and believe me, I will not be making that mistake again

Miss the bath, maybe miss out the story too but feed and bed as soon as you get to your friend's house. Good luck, hope you have a nice evening

Thanks for the advice! I think you are both right, skip bath and put him down at our friends house. Finger crossed ut goes smoothly, the friends we are visiting dont have DCs...

I suspect he is likely to fall asleep early during the drive. Try and get him inside their house still asleep in his car seat. Let him be awake for a bit and then try to get him down in their house later on. He'll likely fall asleep in the car again on the way home and then if you do a dream feed you can do it when you get back and put him in his normal cot.

Ignore bedtime routine completely. It would be irrelevant trying to do it at your friend's house and doing it when you get home will just keep everyone awake.

we've done this a few times with my dd when she was a lot younger...just go with the flow to a certain degree, try not to over think it. the more relaxed you are the more relaxed your little one will be. all i used to do was put her in her sleepsuit and then kind of take my cues from her as to settling her down for sleep etc....enjoy your evening, it'll be fun xx

We've done this a few times, usually what has worked for us is bath + milk at home, then put in sleeping bag and into car seat (we have the sleeping bags with holes for the car seat straps). Fall asleep in car hopefully. Then transfer from car seat to travel cot at the other end

I'm very surprised by above responses, just goes to show how different kids are.

Personally whenever I take dd to stay somewhere else (fairly often as family is spread out) I do the best approximation of routine possible as close to right time as possible and she settles fine.

Enjoy your meal