Poll: Taking DC out

tmp-969886500003101 · January 2009

How old was your dc when you took him or her out for the first time? (Not including pedi appts etc.) I'm talking shopping or to lunch, things like that.

AggieDee · January 2009

I think he was about 10 days old.

TexasSmith · January 2009

4 days old...Super Target.

savannah11 · January 2009

I had lunch with a friend when he was 4 weeks.

Karey08 · January 2009

Aidan was 12 days old when he went on his first shopping trip.

MrsKHB · January 2009

I think he was about a week old, took him to Target.

rayskit10 · January 2009

about 10 days old and we too went to target

aprilprincess · January 2009

probably about a week, and probably target, don't really remember. although at 12 days she went on her first road trip and had stops at Denny's and such

I only remember having the fear I would leave them somewhere-like the car or at home, since she was quiet and I wasn't used to her being around.

houstonkdw · January 2009

I think Kohen was 2 days old and Kamryn was 3 days old

I can't stay locked up in the house for long. I am too much of a busy body.

melissa0312 · January 2009

three weeks.

PAGAS · January 2009

We went out our first week home. I take her out every day as long as the weather is good. She loves being out and about and it normally is a good way to get her to nap. She is still napping in her carrier from our morning run to Kroger, Rice Epicurean and Costco.

KelleyA · January 2009

A week...I am not the type of person to stay at home. It would have made me batty! I just covered her car seat with a stroller or carried her in a sling so people couldn't get too close.

darva · January 2009

hmm. we came home from the hospital on day 4, which was a Friday. That next Monday we had a pedi visit and then went to lunch afterwards. I'm certain that same week, I made Chad take me out to dinner several times because being stuck at home all day sucked. We also visited Super Target several times that next weekend. (so still within 14 days old)

mom2ll · January 2009

3 days old and we went to BRU.. I HAD to leave the house... at 4 days old we went to brunch.... we go out every day.. I just can't stay home.. I'm way too social.. and so is he...

KellyMichelle · January 2009

Nine months.

Quartzcpw · January 2009

Day 9, I think. That was only because I had him the week of Thanksgiving so we were busy with family at the house, etc. and didn't want to face the weekend crowds out and about.

LisaK2b · January 2009

2.5 months. - we went to church for Mother's Day.

Quartzcpw · January 2009

On another note--anyone's pedi tell them they couldn't do this for 6 weeks? Mine said the opposite but my BFF's have put that restriction on them (their DC is a full-term, healthy baby). Just curious...

melissa0312 · January 2009

Quartzcpw:
On another note--anyone's pedi tell them they couldn't do this for 6 weeks? Mine said the opposite but my BFF's have put that restriction on them (their DC is a full-term, healthy baby). Just curious...

mine said nowhere for atleast 8 weeks. i told him that wasn't exactly possible and did what i could to keep her away from people when i did take her out.

melrrr · January 2009

Yikes! There is no way I could stay cooped up for a month+ or even weeks! I don't have plans of hanging out in crowds and letting strangers fondle and breathe all over him/her.

Assuming everything goes well and as planned (baby comes early or on time...ha!) we're driving to my parents' in New Orleans not long after that.

rayskit10 · January 2009

mine said 2 weeks and i tried but couldn't make it

TexasHarmony · January 2009

Mine said 8 weeks. She got out of the hospital at 4 days old and we were at lunch and Target at 5 days old.

kat.in.the.hat · January 2009

She was six days old - the first day we were home after discharge. We didn't have a/c and the house was just too hot

houcoog · January 2009

6 days. We went out to dinner and then to Target afterwords.

nvp05 · January 2009

A week old...my mom and I took her to SuperTarget. She slept the entire time in her carseat. Sometimes I miss those days.

CareBear01 · January 2009

I could see not having other people touch them, pass them around, breathing on them for 6 weeks, but a trip to Target where they are protected by you in a cart, or in a sling, I would think would be fine. ?? Doctors probably just say that long so they are not liable if something does happen!

funnyvalentine · January 2009

Wyatt was two weeks old. ?We had to make a trip to the ER because DH had kidney stones. ?I wasn't opposed to going out before that, but I just really hadn't felt up to it.

M&M614 · January 2009

Mia was less than a week old. I don't remember exactly.

This one... not sure with the section. But I'd love to go to church on Sunday. It'd be day 5. We'll see if I'm up to it.

My pedi is so relaxed. He said to go out, you don't have to let everyone touch him or her.

retsub · January 2009

Sarah was 3 months old...Jacob was a little over one week old.

Annkiwi · January 2009

One week - to a friend's baby shower. Two weeks to anything else. But that was because I felt like I was hit by a truck - not because I didn't want to take her out

chrisbride04 · January 2009

My mom and I took DS on a quick shopping trip to BRU following my post-op dr. appointment when he was 6 days old. The first time I took him out for a longer shopping trip he was about two weeks and like others we went to Target.

Jen&Keith · January 2009

K was 6 weeks.... DH heard the Dr. say 6 weeks, and he wouldn't let me take him anywhere.... drove me nuts!!!

thepopkins · January 2009

DD was about a week old- to target.

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