Holiday parties

ailinamei808

Congrats to all the new mommas. I'm wondering how many of you are bringing your little ones to family / friend Holiday parties. It would be great to celebrate their 1st Christmas with everyone but I worry with exposing them to possible infection esp since my friends have toddlers/preschoolers and my babies are already tiny for their gestational age. My doctor said there is no right medical answer

rachswi

I would say if you go, wear the baby so no one tries to hold/touch them.

nmwheel1

With my oldest I was paranoid about bringing her places. Now that I have a 2 year old and a 3 week old I view this completely differently. My toddler needs to get out of the house for activity or she gets extremely grumpy and acts out. I'm exclusively breastfeeding so the baby has to come with me (she was also small for gestational age at 39 weeks + 1 day she was 5lbs 12oz). On Mondays we go to a play group for my toddler to run around and play with other toddlers. Today we have a birthday party for another toddler from my oldest's baby group. Just do what you are comfortable with!

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ailinamei808 said:

Congrats to all the new mommas. I'm wondering how many of you are bringing your little ones to family / friend Holiday parties. It would be great to celebrate their 1st Christmas with everyone but I worry with exposing them to possible infection esp since my friends have toddlers/preschoolers and my babies are already tiny for their gestational age. My doctor said there is no right medical answer

We skipped thanksgiving. My LO will be around 6 weeks at Christmas, we have already told everyone that baby is not being passed around during christmas. Only the grandparents and my H and I will be holding him. Partly due to germs, but also he just gets too over stimulated and he is up all night. We also plan on leaving early, probably won't be there for than an hour or 2.

thefithuntress

My little lady will be a month old at Christmas. She'll be around our moms and my sister in law's family. They have two young kids. Since they're flying in from up north I'm gonna have them sanitize before holding her and I'll likely wear her most of the day to avoid the pass-around.

MargaretC5

DS goes to DC and brings home all the germs anyway, so I not to concerned about this LO going to a family party. My family is also really good about hand washing around babies, so that helps too.
DS brought a cold home last week. Both DH and I got it but LO is fine, she is the only one that did not get it (thank you BF).

Pontot31

My 3.5 year old is in preschool so he's likely already getting exposed to a lot.
My in laws, including my 2 nieces, are coming to visit the weekend before Christmas. They'll stay at s hotel down the street. We will let them all hold the baby with in reason but I will probably take him home early most days while DH and my daughter stay and play at the pool in the hotel.
Baby wearing helps a lot too.
My biggest worry is overstimulation and then him not sleeping. Luckily I have the BFing excuse and can take him to another room to relax and eat often.

For Christmas itself it'll just be us and my parents since the rest of the family is 2 hours away.

AmoLovesAud

Kiddo will be 5 weeks at Christmas, and both our families do big, extended family parties.  The ped said it was better to skip, but seemed okay with my plan to wear the baby so she doesn't get passed around, and keep your distance if you're sick.  It will probably make DH's family upset (his aunts are baby crazy, babies are always being passed around at parties), but its either that or skip the parties entirely.  Its really important to me for my grandpa to meet Kiddo at my family party on Christmas Eve, and it wouldn't be fair to travel down for my family and not DH's too (our families are near each other, about 90 minutes away from us).

chelseaepley

Went to husbands company Christmas party this past weekend. I used a wrap and people looked but no one touched.

Cook3133

I have no problem with taking my LO places. He's my fourth kid so since he has big brothers in kindergarden and preschool there is no keeping him away from germs. At least adults are more likely to wash their hands.

PetitNightingale

I'm taking LO up to his dad's side of the family for the holidays. I'm not looking forward to it really, they are mostly older WASP type people who will probably passive aggressively snark. I don't mind if he gets passed around. He sort of seems to glory in it. He lights up whenever anyone picks him up. 

I am a little nervous for the plane ride though. I'll have to research how to keep him from screaming his head of. 

cdepperschmidt

We took DS to Thanksgiving. I'm not worried about germs. However, as a FTM i was unaware of overstimulation issues. Once we got there DS was definitely having some issues and became fussy. I think I will wrap him at Christmas to avoid this like PP said.

kmd91

If we were near family to have a family christmas get together to attend I wouldn't think twice about going with out little guy. We hosted thanksgiving at our house, though it was all guys except for one female, so there wasn't really the concern of passing him around. He did get to get some snuggles from her, but she has held him a number of times anyways, so it was no concern to me. He actually got passed around more at a cookout we went to when he was almost 2 weeks old.

skabanak

Cook3133 said:

I have no problem with taking my LO places. He's my fourth kid so since he has big brothers in kindergarden and preschool there is no keeping him away from germs. At least adults are more likely to wash their hands.

This^^ I'm on my third so I'm pretty laid back too.

helsbels222

You should be okay if it's mostly adults. We have some kid bday parties and DS' school party coming up and I decided to keep LO home. She gets exposed from DS but that doesn't mean I should bring her to an elem school full of germs.

Lolo427

Thanksgiving we skipped the big horse and pony show at my Inlaws but unfortunately need to make an appearance lest people start feeling offended with my avoiding. I'm planning on wearing her and letting the grandparents and aunt hold her. The bigger issue for me is besides the initial announcement we want no photos of her on social media and we've gotten some flack from it already. I don't mind a group photo of the family and whatnot, but people just holding her is a no go. We'll see how it goes.