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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of two kids born at 28 weeks who spent 2 months in the nicu and made everyone in the extended family get multiple vaccinations (and provide documentation), you are crazy. Just have people wash up when they get to your house.

Screen time, schedule, diet, religion, etc - all things you can and should control with your progeny. Kisses? Come on. How do you even have the time to count kisses? Take a nap, have an adult conversation, read a book, take a walk. Use the MIL to give you a break. If you continue down this road you will suffer a break of a whole different kind.[/quote]

Who are you to decide what bother OP? She may feel as strongly about germs as you do about screen time or anything else on your list of acceptable restrictions above. [/quote]

Oh god, the feelings person!  Shows up in every thread where someone is complaining about something ridiculous and tells everyone we have no right to judge the OP's feelings.

Some people's feelings are ridiculous. They should be told that so they don't go around alienating people and acting crazy. [/quote]

I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've posted about validating "feelings." You're being a bit dramatic, PP. Anyway, I think it's silly for one person to list the things they deem acceptable for OP to control while scoffing at something that doesn't make on her personal list. Many people would deem some items on PPs list as being "crazy, controlling and unhinged" but it's her child and I won't call her insane for deciding what is important to her family, even if it's a non-issue in my world -- making those decisions for your own family is called being a parent. As far as OPs concerns, there are actual real health risks with people kissing babies faces and for some, they feel family is reason enough to take that risk, but for others, nothing is worth that risk. And if, as other PPs have mentioned, not being able to kiss the newborn hundreds of times is going to "ruin" MILs relationship with her grandchild down the road, then MIL needs to own that. Get a grip, PPs, and try to understand that people are complex individuals who oftentimes process the world differently.

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