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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your baby would be exposed to more harmful chemicals on a street corner than from your MIL. From your household cleaner.  Your dirty air filter.  So many things.  Why do you ignore these rational thoughts?

In psychology, this might be called "catastrophizing" or just "OCD" or anxiety.  Honestly OP, you are not making sense.  Like a PP said, it sounds like you really hate smoke, which I understand stinks etc.  But this is way overboard.[/quote]

OP here.  My baby doesn't smell like the street corner or a dirty air filter or household cleaner for 6 hours after exposure as she does after spending time with her grandmother.  My baby's nose doesn't run and doesn't cough after a visit to the street corner as she does after being with her grandmother.

When she's been over to the house, even 5-6 hours before I get home from work, as soon as I open the door I know she has visited.  My own nose starts running almost immediately.  Our furniture reeks for days afterward, and my allergies act up.

I do have heightened anxiety because of her early birth and NICU stay.  But really, you'd smell my MIL from 20 feet away if you have a decent sense of smell.  You'd understand if this could be  a scratch and sniff post.[/quote]

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