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Personally, my bigger worry was people with oral herpes. One of my cousins had a cold sore and I had to ask her not to kiss him. (I told her that we asked everyone not to kiss him.) And then of course she kissed him -- numerous times -- and said she just forgot. Luckily (so far) he doesn't seem to have gotten the herpes virus from her, but I finally had to say, "You have an open cold sore on your face. That's the herpes virus. I really cannot have you touching his face with an open herpes sore." I'm sorry that I had to embarrass her that way but I was furious that she kept kissing him even when we asked her not to!

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Good grief, you should have just been honest with her in the first place about why you didn't want her to kiss him.  It could be that she was uneducated about oral herpes and how easily it is to transmit.  [/quote]

PP.  I did mention oral herpes to her as one of the reasons why the doctor did not want anyone kissing him.  It was only when she persisted in kissing him that I called her out on having an open cold sore.  I guess I could have personalized it from the start but I didn't want to immediately call her out on it - I thought a general "please don't kiss the baby on the face because the neonatologist said catching oral herpes or other infections spread through kissing could land him back in the NICU" would be respected.[/quote]

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