Christmas conundrum…
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For perspective - you wrote "I want a quiet Christmas at home." So have a quiet Christmas at home, you'll definitely want to stay home with your baby and recover if you're already feeling that now. It's not safe for a newborn to be in a car seat for 2.5 hours anyway, they recommend a break every 30 minutes and that's just not worth entertaining :)
I wouldn't be willing to drive that far with a newborn. We already have plans to have Christmas at our house this year with my family. We had Christmas with my partners family last year and when I was pregnant with my first she called dibs on this year with her (she's now 1). I am pregnant with baby no. 2 who's due on Christmas day so there's no way I'm travelling away from home this year. Dinner might be an interesting one depending on when this little one decided to join us, we are yet to share the news with family. I would just do what you are comfortable with and if it means it's just the 3 of you sitting on the sofa eating pizza and staying in PJs all day then do that! Don't put pressure on yourself to keep other people happy when baby will be so young. Offer to have them over for new years day tea or something instead just so you can navigate the newborn stage without people poking there noses in where they're not wanted
No way. I’d stay at home and have Xmas just the 3 of you. You could invite them to you for Christmas? Let them do the travelling x
We spent our first Christmas with my partners mam as it was our first Christmas without his dad so it was a bittersweet moment. She only lives 20 minutes from us so we didn’t mind going up. Just to add I also gave birth on the 22nd of December and ended up back in hospital on the 24th and been let out on the 25th afternoon so we just went up to her house and spent Christmas there and it’s become and Christmas tradition. But a 2.5 hour drive is too far x
Also worth considering baby could be a week late easily, so potentially even younger. Even if you wanted to do a 2.5 hour drive with multiple stops, at that stage you may not be getting enough sleep to be safe. We are due 3rd December and there is no way I am travelling anywhere for Christmas😂 Why not have them put in the effort to visit you and maybe even cook for you too (just an idea🤷♀️), if you want to see them.
No way, the drive would be a nightmare for starters!! X