Lockdown has made me a routine obsessive!

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Has anyone else found lockdown has made them a real slave to routine?
I have a 10 month old DS and our little daily routine has helped keep me sane (as well as driving me a bit insane!) through this lockdown. All this time I've been desperate to be able to take him to activities and craving more than just our daily walks and play time around his naps. I am very much a routine lover myself but never wanted to be a mum who was that much of a slave to a routine that I would turn down plans etc.Yet when I'm finally seeing events advertised that I want to take him to like messy play and baby swim my immediate thought was a rush of panic about deviating from his nap times?! It's like I'm so excited to get back to doing normal things but also really nervous to step away from the normal I've got used to!
I know it's absolutely stupid and I am planning on booking on to the activities but just wondering if anyone else is feeling the same way?

Don't have young children but absolutely get it. I am starting to think about rebooking all of the things that got cancelled last year eg days out, weekends away and the idea of driving and navigating a new area actually makes me nervous. Used to love it so hoping it's just a case of adapting back.

My daughter is 7 months and we tend to have a fairly strict routine on the days we are at home, but on the days we go for walks on round to my support bubbles house we don't. This used to worry me a bit but it always seems to work out fine. I find when she is occupied with new sights and things she is fairly content and doesn't tend to whinge like she would if she missed a nap at home. She also gets in cat naps in the car and pram which seem to keep her going when we are out. The worst that happens is she gets quite whingey before bed if she hasn't managed much sleep in the day and we get home too late for a nap. Half an hour of baby TV normally gets us through though!

To be honest DS is 2 and I don’t go out at nap time, mainly because it’s 2 hours of the day where I can sit and do whatever I want and eat in peace, and actually keeps me sane and makes me a better, more focused parent when he’s awake. So I arrange things for early morning or early afternoon.

If we are having a day out then he will sleep in his car seat / push chair but I try to avoid it!

I'm a slave to routine and it has nothing to do with lockdown. I just like a routine and I make no apologies for that. Nap time is sacrosanct in this house!

My nap routine was well entrenched before lockdown. I tried baby led but hated it, you couldn't book anything or plan anything in advance because you didn't know when he would be napping. He didn't like it because he didn't know whether he was coming or going.

I just booked classes around his naps. It meant I couldn't go to some (I'm not that gutted about missing baby dance class) but I knew what I was doing and he was happier.

Do what suits you and baby. Mine has just dropped naps at 2.5, it really isn't for that long in the scheme of things.