Advice on leaving a breastfed baby

[snailien]

For Xmas last year my OH got us tickets to go to a show in Novemeber. Our LO will be 5 and a half months by then.

At the moment she won't drink from a bottle and is starting to show signs of being a mummy's girl already, she's fine with her dad but with anyone else she really needs reassurance that I'm near by.

She's quite young to have seperation anxiety but I've heard it gets worse before it gets better. Obviously I'm her comfort as well as food. How can we work towards leaving her for an evening out?

We are hoping she'll take a sippy cup at 4 months but won't she want the comfort of a boob still at night?

We would be leaving her with my parents sowere thinking of leaving her with them for an hour closer to the time to build her up to it.

What are our chances of actually getting to the show??

 

[MrsMouse]

i'm wondering the same thing too - my baby will be 15 weeks old when hubby and I want to go out to dinner for our anniversary - I'm quite lucky in that he will take a bottle of EBM but he hasn't settled to sleep for anyone else yet but for me and other half.

I don't want him to end up crying himself to sleep but both sets of our parents are of the "old school" variety where you just leave them to cry!

Any ideas ?

 

[lynnikins]

ive left mine a few times we introduced him to a bottle at 3 1/2 wks and he takes ebm from a bottle fine now he has 2-3 bottles of ebm a day depending if ive pumped or not lol and hes fine staying with someone other than me and DH now

 

[Elski]

Can you do some practice runs with you being there while your mum runs through the bedtime routine so that LO gets used to her doing it but with you nearby so she knows it's 'safe'. Also, will your folks be coming to your place to look after her, that might be better from a familiarity point of view.

I had exactly the same kind of thing a couple of months back, OH got me Pearl Jam tickets for Christmas and the gig was to be when LO was 6 months old. She started to take bottles at around 16 weeks or so (flat-out refused before then) and so I just gave her the odd evening bottle of EBM every few days and did some practice runs with my mum during the 2 or 3 weeks leading up to the gig.

Good luck

 

[LeannieB]

Hi I agree with Elski in that u could try a few practice runs before u leave LO for the night so u know that LO is ok with your parents and that way u hopefully wont worry too much and enjoy your evening out. U could also try leaving LO with your parents for a few hours in the day with a bottle of EBM and see if she takes it as im having the same problem at the moment in that my LO wont take a bottle from me but sometimes will from OH. xx

 

[snailien]

Thanks ladies, I will try and do some practice runs

 

[PB&J]

Definitely do some practice runs. We had MIL watch us do bedtime routine a few times with OH giving a bottle, then she did it with us there a few times. We went to see Muse at Manchester on Saturday (best part of three hour drive away) and I was worried that we'd take ages to get back if there was a problem, but there wasn't. The only issue I had was being away 12 hours (dreadful traffic on way back) and having rock hard, lumpy (you could see the lumps!!!!), agonisingly painful boobs.
Our next challenge is this Saturday as I'm going to London overnight to see Muse again and leaving jenny with OH.
P.S. It sounds like I leave her loads, but although, it's twice this week, it's the first two times since she was born!!!