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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never expect my brother to go to my wedding 6 hours away when it's literally within a couple days of his child's birth. You're not being hormonal. This is whack, Covid or not. [/quote]

Op here. If this was just a coincidence and the date happened to be right near my due date, I really don’t have a problem with him going.  It’s important to her that he’s there and she needs him there for family support. And I can manage for 24hrs on my own. My husband was there for the birth but did not stay with me at the hospital anyway for our first, he just visited. He was tired and couldn’t sleep comfortably at the hospital. He tried to duck out during my labor at the hospital too but I made him stay. And really after that first childbirth experience,

I can’t help but wonder just a little bit though about the wedding date. Especially since she has a history of these unfortunately timed events or big announcements with her parents.  I know it sounds crazy, but there’s been a lot of crazy things over the years that I won’t go into. It’s these little secret war games between her and her mom mostly, where they seem to want to sabotage each other— and I’m not even sure if they do it consciously. That said, she’s never done that with me that I know of.[/quote]

I’m pretty relaxed about covid, but with the case of a newborn, I would ask him to exercise precautions coming home from a large gathering like this.  Personally I would act almost as if he was exposed, masking if possible, monitoring for any symptoms and getting tested about five days after he returns.  For what it’s worth, we were cautious like this when we had a baby in the height of flu season too.  Any fever in a newborn can send your baby to the hospital for a spinal tap - unfortunately this happened to us for a respiratory virus and it was quite stressful.[/quote]

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