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September 2012 Moms
other children around your newborn
What are everyone's feelings on other peoples children around, holding, touching your newborn? Is there a certain age when it is better?
Also, I have cousins whos children are not immunized and they are school-age (grade 2 and kindergarten) should I be worried with them near the baby?
Thanks!!!
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Re: other children around your newborn
My rules are no touching. Esp if they aren't immunized.
ETA: It's really what you're comfortable with tho!
~~~ EDD for Baby #2 6/28/15~~~~
The only little kids that would be around LO will be my cousins, and since we live an hour and a half away we probably won't be seeing them until the holidays anyway. At that point LO will have his shots and all of them have been immunized, so I am not worried about it. Then again, I grew up in a large family and there was a baby around from the time I was a year old until I was out of high school and we never limited who was around the baby.
I agree with PP is it something you will have to decide. It's more of a comfort thing and what your gut tells you.
I'm really strict with my kiddos about being "in the babys face" or "touching the face" when new baby comes around because they get the sniffles and germs so easy and play on the floor a LOT (they are 3 and 4- kindof comes with the territory). Other people's kids, I just dont take the chance. They can look but no touching. To be honest, the other kids moms usually steer them away before they even get a chance to get too close. Immunized or not, I dont let many kids touch the baby in the newborn months.
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We would let some kids hold DS, they had to actually wash their hands though, no hand sanitizer, and they were not allowed to touch DS's face.
Of course they sat on the couch with DS propped up with pillows and their parents or one of us close by.
They were excited about the new member of the family so I wanted to encourage it. Not saying if you don't, you aren't, I just was really excited my 4 year old "niece" wanted to hold the baby.
Same here.
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DS is obviously going to be around the baby. in its face, holding etc. he is mostly immunized (just hasn't had MMR) He will only be allowed to hold the baby when mommy or daddy are around (due to his age)
my step-daughter is 6 and fully vaccinated but is a much less healthy child than DS (she is sick every other week all winter every winter, hand foot & mouth, scarlet fever, chronic ear infections etc. DS has had 2 colds and a handful of fevers in his life) so she will be required to wash hands before touching/ holding the baby. and if she is visibly sick she will be asked to keep her distance.
friends kids will need to wash their hands and be supervised and no touching the face. As long as they aren't visibly sick. but I agree, its all personal preference.
No young children around newborns, ESPECIALLY without immunizations. My crazy SILs kids were not allowed near my DD and will not be allowed near our LO either because she refuses to give them vaccines at all.
As far as older children that know how to scrub their hands, cover their face if they sneeze or cough, those we allowed near DD and will be fine with our LO. We just make sure they wash up before touching the baby.
As far as kids in a public setting, no way, too many germs already near the baby, forget about what kids touch outside.
No kids around my newborn (except his brother of course) for the first few weeks, after that I will have nieces and nephews over, but there will be no touching.
As for non- vaccinated children, I do not want those around either one of my kids, so if I know (and at least with the kids who I would see I do), those won't be interacting with any of us.
We let my 8 year old nephew hold DS when he was a week old. DS was only 3 weeks at Christmas and was around a lot of the family kids. We just didn't play pass the baby with the kids. I think we let 2 of them hold him because they asked. We just have them wash their hands really good and sit on the couch. My siblings all live in different states and don't get all together very often. I wouldn't trade the pictures we have of DS with all this cousins for anything.
This time, DS will be all over him. I will do my best to teach him to stay out of his face. But I also want to let DS kiss his brother on the head and learn nice touching. DS will be in daycare, so I am concerned with the crud he will bring home.
Hands off the newborn until he gets his 2m shots for everyone who:
-is not immunized
-attends daycare or elementary school (hello walking germ factory)
-has had someone in their household be sick in the last week
For these people, it's a look but don't touch.
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