Tomorrow night I have a b-day dinner party with a gang of friends I don't see often and that has been planned for several weeks now (this to say not going at all isn't really an option). Originally, I wasn't going to take my 5.5 month old DD for the following reasons (in no particular order):
1. It's a 40 min drive, on a pretty isolated country road that I don't know very well and I feel uncomfortable driving it at night with a baby in the car.
2. The host has a small obnoxious dog which means no leaving LO on the floor to play, and a pet parrot that honestly gives me the hibijibies.
3. The host/birthday girl doesn't really like children.
So the plan was simply to leave DD with her dad (DH) and have him give her a bottle and put her to bed. I was planning on being gone from 5h30-9h00, at the latest, so less than 4 hours, but still longer than ever before.
But now, I found out last night when I left DD with my mom for a couple of hours, she refused to take the bottle. Sure, I was only gone for 2 hours, and so she wasn't super hungry, but she did nurse when I got home, so maybe she was hungry. My mom says she just played with the bottle but refused to drink.
DD has taken a bottle once or twice before, but the last time was when she was just over 2 months old. She has been offered a bottle 2, maybe 3 times since, and has always refused it, but I was never gone for more than 2-3 hours, so she was probably not very hungry. I kinda assume that if she's hungry enough, she'd take it, but now I'm not so sure. The problem is, I don't have much to go on!
So I'm torn about tomorrow...I'm not so sure the plan of having DH give her a bottle and put her to bed will work anymore. I could still go without her, and come back early, but if things go wrong, it's not like I'm across the street. But the reasons for not taking her are still all there. I could go for just an hour or so, but just the drive there and back would be 1h20, so really, I'd show up and leave right away.
Any advice?
TIA!!
ETA: Could it be possible she wouldn't drink because the milk had been frozen? Would she be more likely to drink freshly pumped milk?
1. It's a 40 min drive, on a pretty isolated country road that I don't know very well and I feel uncomfortable driving it at night with a baby in the car.
2. The host has a small obnoxious dog which means no leaving LO on the floor to play, and a pet parrot that honestly gives me the hibijibies.
3. The host/birthday girl doesn't really like children.
So the plan was simply to leave DD with her dad (DH) and have him give her a bottle and put her to bed. I was planning on being gone from 5h30-9h00, at the latest, so less than 4 hours, but still longer than ever before.
But now, I found out last night when I left DD with my mom for a couple of hours, she refused to take the bottle. Sure, I was only gone for 2 hours, and so she wasn't super hungry, but she did nurse when I got home, so maybe she was hungry. My mom says she just played with the bottle but refused to drink.
DD has taken a bottle once or twice before, but the last time was when she was just over 2 months old. She has been offered a bottle 2, maybe 3 times since, and has always refused it, but I was never gone for more than 2-3 hours, so she was probably not very hungry. I kinda assume that if she's hungry enough, she'd take it, but now I'm not so sure. The problem is, I don't have much to go on!
So I'm torn about tomorrow...I'm not so sure the plan of having DH give her a bottle and put her to bed will work anymore. I could still go without her, and come back early, but if things go wrong, it's not like I'm across the street. But the reasons for not taking her are still all there. I could go for just an hour or so, but just the drive there and back would be 1h20, so really, I'd show up and leave right away.
Any advice?
TIA!!
ETA: Could it be possible she wouldn't drink because the milk had been frozen? Would she be more likely to drink freshly pumped milk?
