Waking baby up

[shimmer]

My husband's aunt is getting married this weekend.  She is having a dinner (which is costing an arm & a leg per head).  My husband and I were hoping to attend the whole thing for the most part.  Our hotel is located about 10 minutes away, however, and our LO's bedtime is right in the middle of the dinner.  His aunt needs a head count tonite.  She offered for us to put our LO in her suite upstairs for the first couple of hours, that way, we can attend a lot more of the reception.

Sooooo - is it smart to wake up our LO at 10 PM to put her in the car and transfer her to our hotel?  She'd be awake for about 20 min.  Would this be ridiculously unwise of us?  Her bedtime is 8:00... so we'd put her to sleep in the suite upstairs from the party, and then wake her (cause she would NOT sleep through me picking her up and putting her in the car), put her in the car and drive to our hotel.  Should we risk something like this?  Or should we simply suck it up and take her to our hotel and do the routine (bedtime routine takes about 1/2 an hour) and then leave her w/ a babysitter...?

Thoughts? SUggestions?

(we considered staying at the hotel of the reception, but $$$)!

p.s.
she's 10 months old

[daniellechiasson]

Personally I say go for it. It's not like you are doing this often and you deserve to have some fun even with a LO.

[Stargrl]

I've sort of done this with my 7-month old DS every time we go down to visit our family, about every month. We leave at his bedtime, drive 3 hours, get him out and set up the porta-crib, then put him back to bed. The most important tip I can give you if you decide to do it is to tell everyone to *not* interact with your LO when you're doing the transfer to the car.  Keep it as low key as possible, don't even talk unless to soothe, and then when you get to your hotel room you can just do a small feed and treat it like a night waking and put her right down.  It's never thrown things off horribly for us, but our DS is used to sleeping in his porta-crib for naps, and we have a white-noise machine that travels with us, so we're able to re-create a familiar environment. It's best to work as a team: one of you can take her down to the car and put her in while the other one packs up whatever she was sleeping in, and then when you get to the hotel do the reverse, one of you unpacks her and the other sets up the bed area in your hotel room.  Since you're all sharing a room, if you can also have all of your pajama stuff set up and ready to go for yourselves you'll be able to make less of a distraction with your own getting ready stuff.

Hope some of that helps, we live in a 1-bedroom house and are used to juggling things around 

-regina

[*Mona*]

Well  if it was me i woudl go for it. You have to live a life now and then!

lol, Stacy, you've got it SO right!

go for it! as long as I believe sleep is so important for babies and waking them from naps etc. is something I never did [not that i had to... lol] you can't just lock yourself in your house and not go anywhere all the time. and she's not so small anyway, right!?

have fun!

[Mommy of 3]

I say go for it.  I know that in special circumstances and events I tend to break up my LO's routine a little and make a few adjustments.  This doesn't happen very often, only once in a great while.  I think you and your husband deserve it.  Will anyone be in the suite with the Lo while LO is sleeping?