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Plenty. We played weekly softball when E was little. MIL watched her often. Still does.And we set aside intentional time at home. We'll do something soon, when T is a little older! We're due!
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We do about once a week, usually a night out or making the decision to watch a movie together.
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Once. We didn't stay home though, we just took DS everywhere with us. If baby's asleep in the stroller, it's almost like a date
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Lots! because it was really important to both DH and myself. We always take advantage of when grandparents are visiting (they all live out of state) and we found a great babysitter when he was about 4 months old. We have gone away for a long weekend too, which was challenging but great! We do date nights at home too, but I also get distracted with household stuff or fall asleep on the couch so its better if we get out!
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Maybe 5? No family near by and babies that wake up every 1-2 hours most night until over 1.
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@mfa_lady: Good for you guys!!! I could only dream lol
'Going on month eight and never
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I remember 2 intentional date nights! One was going to see a movie and 1 was going for drinks for my birthday.
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first year, it is hard to remember now, maybe a 2 or 3. or less? I feel like we started doing them a lot more in the second year when i was breastfeeding less and back at work so LO was more used to being away from me.
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@Mae: Haha I am glad I'm not the only one where LO is almost 9 mo and no one else had ever put her to bed at night haha!
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@mfa_lady: Ugh I should totally try, I bet she'll go down easier if I'm totally out of the house!
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@snowjewelz: Unless he's out of town, Daddy does bedtime at our house! I had a lot of guilt about pumping/giving her a bottle at bedtime for a while, but we all sleep better this way! She eats more, and doesn't get upset when he leaves the room. But me, with my delicious milky smell, on the other hand...not so much.
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Several overnights at a nearby hotel and casino because fil gets free perks and a few dinner movie nights and weddings!
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We have been on 3 day dates in 8.5 months!
DH actually would have probably braught her every time....lol
No night dates yet, I nurse her to bed and well we make time after she is a sleep to be together.Honestly I am OK with our number so far and I think DH feels the same!
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@snowjewelz: same I always put G to bed!
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No dates and she's 2!
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2-3 times a month (left the house/had babysitter)
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About 10x in 10 month out of the house. Neither of us is good at home dates, so we try to get family or a babysitter at least once per month.
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I just realized we had two "night dates" from looking back at pics haha. Once for his bday and another for our anniversary. We ate at 5, home by 7-8 lol.
We also had some lunch dates when DH had jury duty and if he had a long break he would drive to my work to have lunch with me!
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I started working as a date-night baby-sitter at age 9, and was a nanny after college. Since I used to be the person who let parents go on date nights, I saw firsthand how important it was for couples to have that time and was adamant that we find a sitter very early on since we don't have family in town. It's probably about once-twice a month, but SO wonderful. Now that my son is an older infant (9.5 months) and in a really regular bedtime routine, I have a few sitters that he's gotten used to that can put him to bed and hang out while he sleeps. We love our date nights! We also sometimes do daytime dates, too:-).
I'll also say that during the first 2-3 months we went out to dinner with our son ALL the time-I knew that his car seat snoozing days would fade away and a bedtime would start dictating our evenings, so we took advantage of the ambient noise in restaurants lulling him to sleep and enjoyed many evenings out with him!
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We took days off so we could hang out while LO was in day care. She is now 11 months old ,and we've never had a sitter, so no date nights.
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5-10? It was a lot easier with one LO!
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@snowjewelz: I had 0 dates in the year after LOs were born. Never had anyone that could handle the demands of them at a young age. Now we have a child that gets separation anxiety when I leave and cries hysterically til I come back so "dates" won't happen for a while. /:
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