Going out for dinner with/without bub

We’ve done breakfast and lunch with baby a fair few times but only took him to dinner once so far when he was 12 weeks old. My partner and I had to eat in shifts as baby wanted feeding at the same time as our food arrived! He then got grizzly towards the end of the meal and I was very conscious of not wanting to ruin the evening of the other diners so it did mean we rushed the end of the evening a bit. It was only a pub though so nothing too formal.
As for without baby, my partner looked after him while I went out with other mums from our mum and baby group, he was 15 weeks old then and had a defined bedtime routine so my partner had no problems with him and I was able to enjoy the evening 😊

Hey there, coming to you live from the night feed 😂 we haven’t been for dinner but we’ve been for a few lunches so far and our wee one is 4 weeks on Sunday. We made sure the wee one was well fed and milk drunk before wondering in to town with him in his pram and luckily on those days he was having a “good pram day” and slept for hours! There have been other days he’s absolutely hates the pram though. I’d say use the evening nap opportunity and go for it, the worst that can happen is they would cry and you’d feed! X

He was 1.5mo when I left him with my hubs to go to a friend’s birthday dinner. I left him a bottle and pumped before leaving.
Within the first month we took him to brunch with us and he slept in the car seat on the stroller the entire time. Other times if he woke up, I would just babywear him. I always had a bottle of fresh milk handy too.

With my son, we first went out for dinner around 2 months old.
Without him… No clue. We didn’t have anyone to watch him for a long time, since we live away from family and my friends liked him tagging along. I was probably done breastfeeding before I went out without him.

We took our baby out for lunch a week after she was born. I had to feed at the table but it was fairly quiet plus I kinda don’t really care. I know people who take expressed bottles with them which might be easier.

I've been invited to a wedding about a month after due date, and husband and I have comedy tickets for round about then too. Don't know how acheiveable either /both are!!

We took our daughter to a highland gathering so lots of bagpipes/drums etc when she was 3 weeks old. We bought her baby noise cancelling headphones off Amazon which worked well.