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Taking baby out

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My LO was a 35 weeker.  He is almost 4 weeks old now, I am not ready to take him out but I am starting to think about when we want to take him out.  I am planning on talking to my doctor at his next appointment but until then, when did you take your 35ish weeker out?
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  • Imanurse03Imanurse03 member
    Our 35 weeker is now almost 7 weeks old. We have taken him out briefly to Tar.get, Pan.era, etc. No one touched him and we were in and out. We have taken him to a few small family gtgs. But as far as things like church, mall, moms groups, I plan to ask at his 2 month pedi visit. He'll get a few shots at that visit, so I'm hoping pedi will say it's ok a few weeks after his 2 month visit. That way, the vaccines will have time to build up an immunity and it will be near end of flu season.
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  • paige0328paige0328 member
    My daughter was a 34 weaker, but I just recently really started to take her out with me -  she's 3 months now. We'll go to the grocery store or Target, but I use a carseat cover... I feel like it keeps people away, and acts as somewhat of a germ "shield." We tend to avoid large gatherings with a lot of people and will continue to do so until flu and RSV season are over. 
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  • BrookeAWestlingBrookeAWestling member
    my lo was a 36 weeker, and I never really thought about this....I've been taking him out since he was about 5 weeks (taking walks, restaurants, stores, etc...). I keep strangers away, but we've had a few visitors over to see him. His docs said he doesn't require special treatment and encouraged us to get out and be "normal", even gave approval to fly cross-country on vacation... and he had open-heart surgery at 3 days. He really never had typical preemie issues though, and recovered from surgery unbelievably well.
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  • BrookeAWestlingBrookeAWestling member
    also wanted to add, lo's docs assured me that being in a hospital exposes lo to far more bacteria/viruses, etc... than you would naturally find anywhere else. It is a giant building housing sick people, including those with extremely rare and dangerous diseases that you'd almost never encounter outside.
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  • dvwalborndvwalborn

    Our 35 weeker ended up back in the hospital with a virus about a week and a half after NICU discharge.  We were being SO careful and essentially quarantining but he still caught something.  (We don't know how.)  The second 4-day hospital stay SUCKED so I was super paranoid about him getting sick again.  We kept him home until a little after his 2-month appointment when he had shots.  Our ped never told us to limit taking him out, it was more about our comfort level.

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  • cookiemonster03cookiemonster03
    We took our 35 weekers out immediately, but it was August.
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  • TriciaandSeanTriciaandSean member

    We took our 34.5 weeker out almost immediately.  He was in the NICU for 3 weeks, and that was enough to drive me stir crazy.  We were out and about almost daily from the day he got home.

    I should add however that I was anal with the purell and no one was able to hold or touch him without bathing in the stuff.

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  • May524May524
    We only take DS2 out to doctor appointments.  He is almost 5 months and is a 28 weeker.
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  • mfgale09mfgale09 member

    our boys were born at 34 weeks and are 2 months old now. in the nicu and their md says don't take them out until rsv season is over..the end of april!  feels like forever but i dont want to risk it!

     

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  • kyethrakyethra member
    I have taken DS out a time or two-- once for a dinner at outback, but that is about it other than doctor appointments.  It is more for my comfort than anything else-- I get nervous about him catching something so young.  I am planning on taking him out on walks when it gets a little nicer where I live-- it is either very windy or chillier than I would like lately.  In a couple of weeks or so I was planning on taking him more places like babies r us for the registry discount shopping trip, to go to meetings with me etc.  But I'm also careful about who touches him and I don't expect to relax on that yet.  No one can touch him without washing hands and I only let people who are current on flue and pertussis vaccines hold him-- this even applies to immediate family.  I'm probably a little over protective.
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