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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this too much to ask of family? I'm not at all worried about friends or anyone else. Mostly DHs family. My family is a non issue (dead/estranged)

1. Yes if course they can hold baby but not for hours on end. They have made comments like we will just hold baby and hand them back over to feed. That doesn't work for me. ...

2. Masking for the first few weeks/months

3. Flu/RSV/covid test before visiting/ even if that means traveling here and waiting a few days before they see us. They would be flying up from Florida

In laws don't get the flu vac. They only have one covid vax. I know if I pressed it they would get them. But it's not just the vaccines. They are careless and they do not limit exposure or social distance.

4. No kissing baby on the face or hands

5. No social media - we don't use regularly and we aren't posting or sharing either

6. Asking them to stay at a hotel - not sure if that means we would need to pay for the hotel. Open to it

7. Random things like shoes off - which we are always reminding them of, wiping phones w alcohol wipes, washing hands

We live in a large [b]1 bedroom[/b] and when they have visited before they sleep in an air mattress in our living room.... [/quote]

2 inlaws sleeping in the livng room of a 1 bedroom apartment for 1 week plus?  This isn't a week where OP+partner/spouse are out of the house for work or activities.  4 adults and 1 postpartum sharing 1 bathroom while confined to the house. [i]NO.[/i]

They stay in a hotel and come over for day shift- get something for baby to sleep in the living room.  OP gets 2 great sleeps-1 am, 1 pm in the bedroom. Inlaws do laundry, clean,  and provide food.  Another poster wrote about a mom or inlaw with mobility issues- no one with mobility issues carries the baby, wears an infant carrier, or pushes a stroller.  [/quote]

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