2 month old, childcare logistics for attending concert

[Phoenix321]

My dp and I have concert tickets later this year which were booked before finding out I was pregnant. Baby should be a couple of months old by the time the concert comes round. I really don't want to miss the concert but am worrying about logistics of who would watch the baby etc (and would I be ready to leave them for a few hours with someone at that age). I keep flipping between considering getting a hotel room and dp looking after the baby there and my daughter (late teen) coming to the concert with me, just watching the main act, not all the warm up acts etc to then thinking I should just sell the tickets but I have been waiting for the band to tour UK again for a long time. Just wondered if anyone has been in similar situation and can offer me any advice? TIA

Several of my maternity class couldn't stand for more than 5 minutes at 2 months. I think I'd have been ok but a bit stiff the next morning, but I'd have struggled to leave the baby.

I would wait and see but be prepared to sell. With my first baby I had a PPH and a bad sleeper. I felt awful for months afterwards, I couldn’t physically have made it to the concert running on fumes and DS would have been hysterical. With second I felt fine straight after the birth and baby was so settled, although breastfed would take a bottle of expressed milk etc.

This depends on the band!
I would get your daughter to babysit.
plus the hotel room nearby sounds sensible. I’d do it because I’m obsessed with seeing bands. It’s what I do all the time.
i don’t think you should feel bad for leaving baby for a few hours if she’s in safe hands.
there’s too much guilt piled on us mums. You could see it as your reward for making and birthing a human.

Haha I thought you were saying after the birth you think you’d be ok but a bit stiff the next morning. I thought good on you girl 😂

Thank you all so much for sharing your views. I will see how the Labour and birth go and see how I feel nearer the time before making a decision.

The midwife came round after 3 days and asked if I'd been out. She held the baby and DH took me to walk to the end of the road to see the cherry blossom, which was as far as this very frustrated marathon runner could go! I didn't take well to sitting on my arse and was over doing it very soon after!

My mum said she took toddler me and my 2 day old baby sister to the park. I can't think how

I went to a gig in similar circumstances at 2-3 months (breastfeeding). I booked a hotel very close with a room for us and a room for my Mum. We left at the last minute to go the gig. We were away for about 3-4 hours tops. My mum had a bottle of expressed milk.

When I got back, baby was fine, Mum went to bed in her room and I settled for a long feed with DS before we did likewise.

It was a logistical faff and I was a bit distracted during the gig but it all worked out in the end, thanks to my very obliging mum.

I went to a concert when my baby was 2 months old! And my sister came with me, she had a 4 month old.

I was about an hour away on a train, so I left baby at home with my husband. I was BF but just pumped while there and luckily baby would take a bottle (I left a stash in the freezer).

my sister lived a bit further away and I think maybe her baby wouldn’t take a bottle so her husband got a hotel room nearby and she fed him, came to the concert then fed him again straight after.

Id leave it til much closer to the time to decide. You may be absolutely fine and regret selling!

I just thought "what do you mean you've been waiting 7 years for Bon Jovi to come back to the UK, I saw them in Liverpool last year!" and then realised nope, that was 2019. Wow.

You'll resell those tickets easily if you can't go OP, just wait and see how you feel. Good luck with the birth!

I had tickets to see Green Day two months after birth and we sold them it was just not doable. Too young and too far away.

Surprised you are considering going.

My advice would be to cancel it and sell the tickets. Baby comes first before your own desires which you will realise when baby is here!

Obviously it depends if you were planning to breastfeed, but exactly 4 weeks to the day after my baby was born I was back using my football season ticket. 2 hour drive there, attend the game, 2 hour drive home. It was fine. The main difference is that I did have a seat at the football.

Personally I would hold onto the tickets for now and decide closer to the time. It sounds like you would be able to sell them easily enough if you decide not to go.

I went to a gig at 7 weeks pp. I had a pretty good labour (natural but with 2nd degree tear), I was exhausted the first few weeks. Breastfeeding was challenging to start with, but we introduced bottles of pumped milk early.

We had friends come to our house. I fed baby, jumped in the car, pumped when I arrived, had a beer, watched the concert (had an amazing time!), jumped in the car (I wasn't driving), got home to a happy baby. I left 2 bottles at home and I had been gauging her behaviour over the previous days/weeks to see if she was likely to be put down easily with a bottle/dummy and she was a chill baby so it worked. Time will tell for you. I really loved getting makeup on and getting out!