Baby staying with family overnight

[Penguins321]

At what age did you let family members have your baby overnight?

18 or 20 months I think.

Not so far and he’s almost 2. I don’t think we’ll do it until primary school age, unless absolutely necessary in an emergency

Ds will be 3 years old this summer and has never been overnight away from us once.

Got a 2 year old and a 10 month old and none have spent the night away from me my first has only spent 8/9 hours away from while I was in hospital giving birth and picked her up after as I only had to stay for the 6 hours after birth! X

I wouldn’t.

18 months or so. We’d stayed there with her previously so she was used to her gps house.

DS only stays at respite as he's complex , the first time he stayed without me sleeping upstairs was a trial before the twins came as they were having him overnight, so 4.

No one's s ever going to offer to have twins overnight until they can fully fend for themselves.

Do you WANT you baby to sleep out? Will it help you have nosiy sex / decent sleep / a date night or is it others expecting you to have over the baby so they can play?

Watching with interest. We have a voucher for a v fancy hotel gifted to us at Xmas 2019. We’d planned to use it at Easter 2020 which obviously went out the window... I had our daughter in August 2020 and the hotel have extended use of it to December 2021 (and will extend again if there are further lockdowns but god I hope not). So we are toying with having MIL do an overnight with DD in October/November, when she’ll be 15 months. Not sure how I feel about it but she’s bottle fed and knows MIL very well (new baby bubble) so I’m wondering how different I’ll feel in 7 months...

DD stayed with her grandparents at 4 months old.

My eldest still hasn't at 3.5- although he would have done if needed to when youngest was born.
We haven't otherwise had any need to and it's not something I feel overly comfortable with or really see the point of for us- he goes to bed and then we get the evening to ourselves.
Only do it if & when you feel comfortable, there will be a huge range in people's answers.

16 months for dd1. Dd2 is approaching that age and I don't feel ready yet. From age 3 she slept at both grandparents about once a month pre covid. She has her own bedroom at each house. Princess!!

I will add though my dd has complex needs and has since birth so myself and DH really benefit from the odd night off just to sleep.

My daughter still hasn’t at two. Equally I don’t have the kind of relationship with my parents that I’d trust them to look after her and my in laws are abroad

Just under a year. Would have done it sooner if we’d had a reason to. Haven’t since cos covid.

Not yer, she’s 18 months. I doubt she ever will due to geography, but I can’t imagine doing it before 3.

I think DS was about 10 weeks old when my Mum had him for the first time. He was fine

DS was 18 months when MIL had him from 3am - 9am when I was in labour

But not a whole night yet and he's 3

It seems that we're unusual in that I've had our granddaughter over to stay since she was about three months old. Once breastfeeding and expressing milk wasn't a problem we were so excited to have her with us.
Our daughter said she could relax knowing she was in safe hands and enjoyed a full nights sleep. We've had her regularly since and have a lovely close bond with her. We look after her two days a week while our daughter works too, she's at nursery other days. I feel very fortunate to be able to spend such quality time with her.

When my girls were growing up we lived hundreds of miles away from any family so didn't have any help or support.

DS1 was 4 and DS2 is 5 and still hasn't.

(Mostly because no one has offered )

2 years

Dd is 2 and has stayed at my mums twice, both when she was under 6 months old and honestly only because I felt pressured by everyone around me to leave her overnight.
She was fine the first time and the second time it didn’t go so well she was up a lot and was upset in the night. I’ve never done it again since.
Recently I’ve been thinking maybe we could try again, I could do with a break but I don’t know I’ll just end up not sleeping because I’ll be worrying if she’s settled or not

Around 10-11 months but it's only a few times a year - 4 or 5 single nights a year

A few months I can't remember but it was painful as I was BF

There's no right or wrong answer just whenever you feel comfortable!

Around 18/20mo I think.