If you baby is younger than 1

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My seven-month-old hasn’t been inside anywhere except our house and pediatrician’s office. Daily trips to the park and weekends at the beach - that’s it.

My 2.5 year old hasn’t been inside anywhere (since March 2020) else either.

Luckily we’re in Southern California and weather is always nice.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS was born December 2019, so right before covid, we pretty much stayed home from March- October of 2020. I did grocery delivery or pick up, or I would leave the kids with my husband and I went to the store.
My DH work hours changed so I started bringing the kids to the store. My oldest (3) wears a mask the whole time. DS was 9/10 months old when we started doing indoor shopping. We go to the grocery store once a week and target maybe once or twice a month.

Literally everyone in the store is masked.

Similar PP. All this thread has confirmed for me is that I'm definitely being judged when I take my kid to a store.

I saw a three-year-old in the store the other week and definitely stared. Not because of judgement, I just hadn't seen (or heard - the kid was crying) anyone younger than a teenager in the store for a year. It was weird.

Where are you guys? I’m in NE DC and take my kid everywhere and he’s never the only kid in the store. Also a Dec 2019 baby.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked that you’re all bringing babies indoors right now.

I mean I wouldn’t bring a tiny newborn inside but I just took my ten month old on vacation to Florida. The plane, the airport, the rental car place, the grocery store while there. She was amazed. Made me realize how little we had taken her out. She actually got covid from daycare a couple of months ago so I wasn’t worried at all about the travel. She had no symptoms by the way and was only tested because another parent fell slightly ill. My brain knows 500,000 people have died but where are they? The dozens of people I know who got it had no symptoms or were like not that sick at all. Weird.

Just because you don't know anyone doesn't mean it's not real. My MIL was asymptomatic, my FIL was hospitalized for a month and has permanent lung and kidney damage. My friend's dad died.

Yes, my brain knows it’s real but if I’m being honest my hearts not in it anymore. I’m ready to just get back to normal kids included and whatever happens happens. I’m not alone.

I get that but we're so close with vaccinations but cases are spiking in Florida and Michigan because people aren't hanging on. We're basically those videos of bicyclists celebrating before thr finish line and then wiping out. The reality is, yeah, if I get it I'll probably fine but I'd become a vector that could pass it on to someone who wouldn't be.

DP. Nearly every adult I know is vaccinated by now.