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Taking your little one out...
for the first time.
How long did you wait to go to places like a restaurant, party, etc. Where there are more than 10 people or so...
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Re: Taking your little one out...
First time was 2 weeks old after her 2 week check up. We went to BRU.
First party was at 5 weeks and we only let either us or grandma's hold her. Might be taking her to her first restaurant this weekend.
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DS was in NICU so from 3 days old we were loading up DD to go see her brother daily from 4-10days old...not really an "outing" per se but we'd eat in the hospital cafeteria with her daily and thats not exactly a sterile area.
At 8 days old we took DD to church (DS was still in NICU). Then starting at 2 weeks we would start bringing them on the weekends when we would go get groceries. Like PP I don't let people touch them and try to stand in a position that owuld make it awkward for them to get too close. I also keep one of the handi-bac's on the handle of each carseat so when we are at an occasion where people will want to hold them (like family/friends ect) its very easy to request they sanitize before they pick them up.
My theory was the longer we waited the harder it would be...I've yet to take them both to run errands on my own, and true to my own advice I'm now scared to. If it doesn't have a drive thru or we aren't going in to meet someone I don't take them out and about without DH.
I would wear the baby in a wrap and tell anyone who asked to hold him that since its flu season you're going to keep him in the carrier for the night.
I would wear mine in the moby since she is almost entirely covered and keep one hand on her - it kind of tells people to look but don't touch.
With DS it was a lot different. He is a preemie and was in the NICU for 11 days. He had chest tubes and breathing problems, so we were advised to keep him in. Even though it was awful, we did it until 7 weeks old when he got his shots. Now we take him out little by little. We haven't done church yet because it's too concentrated. We've done the mall and various stores (with him being worn for extra protection). I've never worried about something this much! With DD I never worried about her getting sick, now with DS that's all I worry about. But the circumstances are much different.
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I held her when we went into a store at one week. I went to a baby shower at 10 days and H brought her by at the end. Then, we went to Target after her 2 week appointment. I was cautious with her, but my pedi told me that fevers result in automatic hospital stays until 2 months.
I hate random people touching my baby. Heck, I hate weird people staring at my baby. When we go out, I still sometimes cover her car seat. There are stupid people who go out with serious illnesses and then will hover over your baby.
At two weeks, I would have declined the party or just popped in myself for a few minutes. We were still trying to figure out breastfeeding.
His first non doctor outing was at 11 days old. I wore him in a moby and we went to pick pumpkins so that there wouldn't be a lot of people around.
Then at four weeks PP I started going to a new moms group with 6 other women I know and their babies (we all freakishly had our babies within a two weeks of each other and one on the same day as my LO).
So we've been taking him out fairly consistently for a while but not in situations where others touch him. Silly as it sounds, I'm just not ready for him to be passed around; I don't trust people to have washed their hands in group settings.
We even skipped Thanksgiving in favor of a quiet one at home but we'll be taking the germ plunge for Christmas. Fingers crossed that we all survive without getting sick.
This is what I would do.
I also blame his dr. "His doctor said anyone who hold him should wash their hands first."