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Visit to hospital

lauraj555lauraj555 member
in March 2015 Moms
my sister works at a hospital and is showing everyone she works with pictures and videos of my baby. Apparently they all think she is so cute and blah blah blah.
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  • lauraj555lauraj555 member
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    Anyways they all want to meet my baby now and my sister wants me to stop by the hospital for lunch and meet her coworkers and they want to hold her. Am I being overprotective by not wanting to a) go to the hospital and expose her to lots of germs and b) I have no idea whose these people are and how many people are going to ask to hold her. Thanks in advance!
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  • noodlienoodlesnoodlienoodles member
    My friend is a nurse and she refused to hold my baby after she got out of work because her scrubs were dirty. They looked great and she could have lied and held her, but she had enough consideration for me and LO to hold off until the next time we got together to hold her.

    I say do only what you feel comfortable doing. It's not fair of your sister to make you feel bad for not doing something that makes you uncomfortable!
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  • KD32412KD32412 member
    Agree with PP. My FIL is a Dr and he refuses to hold baby (or our toddler) until he's taken a bath and changed his clothes. He LOVES his grand babies (his only ones) but will not ask us to visit his office unless it's a no patient work day. If we do happen to stop by to say "hi", he doesn't touch the kids at all.

    Even my teacher friends refuse to hold baby when I visit. They know that their students are little germ bombs.

    You are not being overprotective at all. Sometimes people just don't know, some people just don't care. It is NOT your duty to please them in any way. You do what you know is best for baby! Good luck.
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  • klcarr19klcarr19 member
    My sister works in and ICU unit. I've taken my LO up twice both times I called ahead and she let me know if it was clear or not. Usually those days she just have patients who are recovering from high risk surgery or on some sort of life support. She let me know ahead of time if there was something contagious and we just didn't go. My sister also works as a charge nurse and we only go up when she has a paperwork day and she isn't in scrubs so that helps too. Honestly just do what you are comfortable with. I'm a teacher so I know my LO is going to get the brunt of all the illnesses I'm exposed to... Just have to remember it will toughen up her immune system.
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