Staying with his dad

[helliebobs]

My son is 8 months old and I split from his dad when I was 8 months pregnant. I moved back in with my parents and my husband now lives with his. He sees his son once, maybe twice a week but he's never had him for more than an afternoon but we've now started to discuss him staying over for a night to give me a break. I have no problems with this, in fact it was my idea and I would've done it ages ago but we have slowly built this up (he went from seeing his son for a couple of hours to half a day then to taking him out for a full day). My mum and several other people have said that they think my son's too young for it, but I want him to get used to it as early as possible because I don't want him to get to 1 and for him to be unsettled with his dad. Contact is minimal as it is, so I want to encourage his relationship with that side of his family.
Seeing as my husband has never been around for any real length of time, I'm going to have to literally spell out our son's daily routine for him, which is no problem but what else can I do to make this as easy as possible and minimise the chances of disrupting my son? I would like to then be able to do it on a regular basis so that my husband can bond with his son and I can have some much needed time to myself.
I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions?

[unrulyjulie]

nothing for me to add either hun, just echo what clur said really. you know how i feel about ya though !
love you xxx