Poll: how many parents of 6 month or younger infants went out for NYE

[Anonymous]

DH dragged us to a party downtown, so we didn’t get home until 2:30, where my mom was still up b/c baby just wouldn’t go to sleep.

I think we should have stayed home with baby, but DH wants to continue our ‘single’ life going out, traveling (we have a road trip to So Carolina next month), and I don’t know if we are maybe over extending thongs? Especially for my mom who loves helping out, but is in her 70s and definitely seems to get tired a bit.

How do people thread this needle, especially when all of your social circle is not having kids so once we start being boring parents I think we will be on the outs.

[Anonymous]

*NYE. We are in DC not NYC.

[Anonymous]

No one I know. We had an nye party celebrating Greenwich mean time (so 7 pm here) and then went to bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH dragged us to a party downtown, so we didn’t get home until 2:30, where my mom was still up b/c baby just wouldn’t go to sleep.

I think we should have stayed home with baby, but DH wants to continue our ‘single’ life going out, traveling (we have a road trip to So Carolina next month), and I don’t know if we are maybe over extending thongs? Especially for my mom who loves helping out, but is in her 70s and definitely seems to get tired a bit.

How do people thread this needle, especially when all of your social circle is not having kids so once we start being boring parents I think we will be on the outs.

Oh and you meet other people in the same life stage as you and spend time with them as well. Since they know what you're going through and they don't care that you're a little more boring right now and want to talk formula choices and poop color etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH dragged us to a party downtown, so we didn’t get home until 2:30, where my mom was still up b/c baby just wouldn’t go to sleep.

I think we should have stayed home with baby, but DH wants to continue our ‘single’ life going out, traveling (we have a road trip to So Carolina next month), and I don’t know if we are maybe over extending thongs? Especially for my mom who loves helping out, but is in her 70s and definitely seems to get tired a bit.

How do people thread this needle, especially when all of your social circle is not having kids so once we start being boring parents I think we will be on the outs.

Oh and you meet other people in the same life stage as you and spend time with them as well. Since they know what you're going through and they don't care that you're a little more boring right now and want to talk formula choices and poop color etc

Ugh, I am painfully shy, no one at our jobs have kids, and our rental has no families nearby.

We both work full time, so unclear how to rebuild friendships — we’ve known each other for decades, how do I replace that? But I also know hanging out at a park for every Saturday afternoon will not be on the cards

[Anonymous]

No one else went out???

[Anonymous]

No, i havent went out for NYE in 21 yesrs since i had kids. Get a backbone and tell DH no.why cant you do that?

[Anonymous]

Do you normally let DH call all the shots?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one else went out???

I don’t know anyone with a baby who went out. Mine are 2 and 4 and I’m pregnant, we didn’t go out.

[Anonymous]

my kids are older now, but i remember with my first who was about 2 months old on NYE, we went out to dinner for an hour, 5 minutes away from my parent's home, and hoped we could get back before he awoke again and needed to nurse.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

No, stayed home with my kids.

[Anonymous]

2.5 yr old and 10 week old and we stayed in. My mom lives around the corner and absolutely would watch them but dh and I are SO over that phase. How old are you OP? (I’m pretty sure we stopped going out for NYE by 30, which was before kids.) We had SIL and her fam stay with us and went to a “Happy NOON Year” party with the kids during the day, had pizza for an early dinner, let them do a sparkling grape juice toast at 7pm and then played some card games and drank wine after they went to bed. Everyone wore sweats. I can’t imagine wanting to do more. We stay up late and celebrate at weddings but otherwise nothing fun happens after happy hour as far as we’re concerned.

[Anonymous]

We stayed in too; kids are 2 and 3 mos.

[Anonymous]

We are 32, but the first of our friends to have kids. We have been traveling to Asia and Iceland the laSt few years, and DH is very keen on being parents who travel with kids (he is European and I guess it’s more common for kids to attend parties and go to bars etc).

I’m a little conflicted but I sure did have fun last night!!