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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you say mass email -- it went out to who - family or friends and coworkers as well? I'd love to go to the home of a neighbor under the instruction that I must scrub the sink while I'm there. If they pulled this with just family -- people will still show out of obligation. But for friends/neighbors etc. -- they're about to figure out that people don't really care about them as much as they thought they did.[/quote]

I think friends and families.

If we were honored to be receiving the e-mail it meant recuperating SIL wanted to see us.[/quote]

Pls post the email!![/quote]

[i]Hi friends and family,

We would like to visit those closest to us to come visit our new family.  It's been a very long and stressful past few days and to keep everyone happy and healthy we do have a few requests.

We request all our guests are;
-healthy (no fevers within the last 48 hours, and no worrisome symptoms within the last couple of days this includes vomiting, diarrhea, and/or severe coughing)
-updated on ALL vaccines
-willing to help out (we are very behind in housework and rather spend time bonding with [baby] than cleaning and cooking)
-over the age of 18 (we request no children come at this time)
-not stay over allotted time. (30 minutes to an hour based on our needs)
-not wearing an perfumes or scented body lotions

Our main concern right now is the health of mom and [baby].  Please do not be offended if we do not allow you to hold [baby] during our visitation.  There are many reasons for this and none of it is personal.  We want to foster the bond between mother, father and baby and also make sure he stays healthy.

We have gotten a lot of requests to bring meals.  We greatly appreciate that but do to limited space we ask that you contact us before bringing over a meal.  I will include a least of things we need and enjoy below.  Right now my diet is very strict because of some feeding issues we had with [baby].  Please do not bring any dish containing sugar and please do not bring any alcohol.

We are taking visitors from 10am to 4pm for the next few days, but don't want more than a couple of visitors a day so please respond ASAP to let us know a time that works for you.  We may postpone or delay visitation based on the needs of myself and [baby].  At this time I prefer feeding time to be done without any extra guests.  We have had some unexpected difficulties, and so please bear with us.

While not necessary, we would GREATLY appreciate if any guests are willing help us with basic chores.  My recovery from the birth has not been going well so I find it very difficult to keep up with daily tasks.  If you could volunteer to do dishes or laundry or run the vacuum we would be so grateful.

Thank you so much for being with us during my difficult pregnancy.  You have all been so helpful and we greatly appreciate everything you've done.  We are really limiting who gets to visit these first few weeks, but we can't wait to see those of you who we truly cherish.

Love, [SIL][/i][/quote]

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