How do you handle social settings?

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After a long time - 2 months- we went to a Bday Party. It was mostly stressful for  getting ready and getting there because my fiance being hectic and short tempered. Not even 2 hours in my fiance suggested we should go home because LO needs to sleep. 
He then said it's irresponsible if we went out party settings even if our child is 2 or 3. This rigid lifestyle is depressing me. In other parts of the world (Greece, Itay etc) children aren't brought up to be so rule set. Besides, I look forward to any events because being a SAHM is a pretty shitty and depressing job especially now in winter. 
How do you do it?

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I just take my kid. He naps everywhere and he’s friendly and loves people. It breaks up his routing, but it isn’t detrimental. Babies are relatively adaptable creatures.

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We dont go out past her bedtime. We had our time to be young and childless and put ourselves first. Now it's about our baby. If one of us really wants to go to somethibg the other stays home with her. We plan dates and babysitting for during the day and never get her later than 6. Around christmas we left everywhere by 7 or 8. We can go out again when shes older and old enough to have sleepovers at the grandparents (probably around 3/4). For now shes our priority and nothing is more important than her being happy and not stressed.

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I do sometimes feel a bit trapped by bed time. As she is now a little older and very settled in her night routine, I think a night here and there isn’t going to hurt. We go on holiday in March while the routine will be the same the timeframe won’t be. I’m happy to have a couple of later nights with her sleeping in the pushchair. You have to have a life x

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I don’t take my babe out past her bedtime. She doesn’t sleep in random places and her routine is pretty important. During the day I just try to plan so she can nap in the car or stroller.

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Structure is good but you need a life too, and it’s good for kids to be a part of a community.
We’ve taken our baby to a wedding and a housewarming and plenty of friends’ places. Sometimes it’s easy and sometimes she’s fussy, but the worst that happens is we take her outside and walk her around a bit, or I find a quiet corner to nurse and cuddle her til she’s happy again. But it’s always worth doing because we want our baby to be a part of our lives and for our friends to know her too! 
If we’ll be out for while we bring her baby carrier and she’ll usually fall asleep in it for a nap, so we can keep socializing.
I’ll also go out without my baby and leave her with my husband, probably once a week, just to see friends or do something on my own. He can give our baby a bottle and put her down for naps or bedtime which helps give me more freedom, because I also find being at home so much tough.

How do you handle social settings?

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