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People irritate me. VENT

MarineWife503MarineWife503
in April 2011 Moms

So I don't believe in keeping LO's cooped up in the house for months on end... and I have been taking DS out shopping since he was 3 days old. We go someplace every day (if we can) just to get out of the house.
But a couple days ago... oh man. I was standing in Walmart waiting to pay for my stuff and the checker looks at DS and says,
"Awe he's so cute! How old is he?"
"He's 2 weeks" then I get a semi disgusted look...
"Oh wow... and you're taking him out THIS early?!"

I just stopped talking to her and walked off.
Really? Do people stay locked up in their houses for months until they feel safe enough to take LO out!?

I can't stand being in the house ALL DAY... I need to get out, and DS pretty much passes out from the minute he gets in the car until we come home. So it's win win for us.
People just make me mad...

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  • sarahdee678sarahdee678
    We brought LO out and about just as early. I brought her to church on Easter and she was only a week and half - and my husband is the pastor, so you can imagine how many people wanted to look at her. I didn't let anybody hold her then, but people are holding her now and she's a month old. There's no way I would stay home all day long.
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  • MarineWife503MarineWife503
    I won't let people touch him (outside of family and close friends) until I feel like it's safe enough. But I think it's important to take babies out and about. DS is calmer after we've been out of the house for a little while. And so do we. It's a good emotional flush.
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  • htuzzi324htuzzi324 member
    I NEED to get out of the house or I will go insane. So out we go. I wrap him up in the Moby so people can't touch him, or most of the time see more of him than a bit of his head. It appears the less of him they see, the less they talk. Mostly I get smiles or "isn't he precious?" and they walk away.
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  • LittleDelanyLittleDelany
    My stepdad (the doctor) wouldn't let my mom take my siblings out of the house for the first 6 weeks... and he told my mom to have me keep D in the house too.  I don't think so!  We've been doing errands since he was just a few days old as well.  He's slept through them every single time.  With me being by myself 6 days a week for 14+ hours a day, staying inside all the time just isn't an option if I want to retain any of my sanity!
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  • MG7MG7

    I've had to be out of the house to do things with DS1. He needed to be picked up from school one day and I was the only one who could do it. Part of being the second baby means you just get stuck coming along for the ride.

    Whenever we've gone somewhere with a lot of people I wear him and no one really gets close enough to touch. Plus with a newly potty trained toddler I'm usually racing through the store to get in and out before the next trip to the bathroom is needed. 

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  • MarineWife503MarineWife503

    Haha! I'm totally stealing the Moby advice... I just figured mine out, and DS finally stopped trying to backflip out of the dang thing.
    My mom told me when she visited that I was her "Go Baby" that I was out doing things with her the day she left the hospital!

    But lord knows none of us probably felt like going anywhere for at least the first week... Heck I'm only on week 2 and just now feel human!

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