My 29 weeker is now 3 months old (2 weeks adjusted) and has been home for a month. He's doing well. I've been paranoid about visitors/leaving the house. Yesterday our pediatrician said it's okay to take him out... just to be careful about handwashing/people touching him.
I know going to a restaurant with him covered/us being anal about purel and handwashing is no different than taking him to the doctor's appts. DH (he's a family doc) is totally comfortable with it. I want to be. I'd love to have our friends meet him (only hold him if they've had flu and whooping cough vaccine).
When did you start doing this stuff with your preemies? Thanks!!!!
Re: quarantining your preemie? advice please
I wrote this post for our preemie blog: https://preemiemomblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/protecting-your-preemie-when-out-in_21.html
Hope that helps!! Enjoy!
BFP#2 3/16/11, beta 138; 4/12 Baby/HB DS born 9/10/11 at 29w4d due to partial abruption and PTL
BFP#3 8/19/13 Another boy! 17P, modified bedrest and Nifedipine helped us have a termie! DS2 born 4/19/14 at 38w5d.
My son was a 26 weeker born on 1/25/11, so we were roughly in your same positio when he came home from the NICU on 4/6/11 (his due date was 4/30).
Our son didn't go anywhere other than doctor's appointments until the end of May. We had very limited visitors to our house, and we were super careful about only allowing people over if they (and everyone in their house) was healthy.
This year, we're still quarantining him, for the most part. We're being a little more lax, but he hasn't had a play date since RSV season started. We went out to dinner tonight for the first time since October. It was our choice to be this quarantined - our pediatrician isn't that strict about it. We think she's kind of an idiot, though, so we're doing it our way.
Listen to your mommy instincts and do what's best for your family. It's hard, but we wouldn't have it any other way. Good luck!