No touching/kissing of newborn
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Anonymous
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How long must my family wait until they can rejoice the live and joy of a new family member?
DH is strict and says nobody can come close to incoming baby for weeks if not months. Is he being over the top? |
Anonymous
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Well it's a pandemic, so you shouldn't really be seeing people anyways. I would wait until after they were vaccinated, and the baby was at least 6 weeks.
If you have mom or MIL visit, they would obviously need to spend two weeks in quarantine first. |
Anonymous
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This AGAIN?!?
Options: 1. Have visitors. 2. Don’t have visitors. |
Anonymous
Sorry, I Dont live for DCUM so I come here a couple of times a month. Please pardon my life. My mother lives half a mile away from me. Quarantining doesn’t sound very feasible. |
Anonymous
| Ask your prediatrician, but like all things covid there is not going to be one 100% correct answer. Maybe visits but no holding the baby? Re-evalulate as virus stats change and the baby gets older. |
Anonymous
NP here and please learn to use the search function. Also, I think you're a reckless ignoramus. |
Anonymous
It’s up to you, not DCUM. My parents live in Pittsburgh and they’ll be coming to visit the baby ASAP. It’s my choice and their choice and that’s what we’re doing. |
Anonymous
This is the only right answer. |
Anonymous
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My good friend from high school finally had her baby after years of infertility, losses, and treatment. Her daughter was born healthy, but premature the week before Thanksgiving. I was so happy for her.
Then she posted pictures of her families very large Thanksgiving, including her parents, both sisters, brother's family from California. Of course, no masks. Someone must have commented because she went on a huge rant about leaving people alone, and not imposing your masking beliefs, or holiday alone on other people. One week later everyone in her family has Covid. I don't know if her baby had Covid, because she hasn't posted since. I'm hoping they are okay, but to me it's not worth the risk. |
Anonymous
| Your first, OP? |
Anonymous
| No one should be kissing the baby on the face even outside of a pandemic. |
Anonymous
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Dd#2 was born in May. My parents came from 2 hours away to keep DD#1 while we were in the hospital, then they came back 2 separate weekends to visit within the first 10 weeks. We had no other visitors during that time. They both held the baby, but no one other than myself and DH kisses her head.
We had a ton of visitors after DD#1 was born 5 years ago. I appreciated the extra help at that time (DD#1 was a difficult baby), but the peace and quiet this time was really nice. |
Anonymous
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Personally I think the no touch/kiss/huggers are psycho (within reason of course I wouldn't let anyone visibly ill hold the baby).
But of course with COVID that changes things. Anyone you feel comfortable seeing in COVID times though, you should be comfortable with holding your baby. IE, you are theoretically VERY confident that they are not sick! |
Anonymous
| I had a winter preemie and the pediatrician told us 6 months even though baby was getting the RSV vaccine. And that was before COVID. |
Anonymous
Preemies are different. My full term baby I was so shocked when they said six weeks was fine. And most people did visits much earlier before COVID and it was fine. Mom’s mental health matters too. |