Anonymous
08/15/2021 11:04
Subject: Re:Nervous about get-together
Anonymous wrote:OP here - thank you all. It's always hard to decline such well-meaning offers of help/celebration. I will politely inform them tomorrow that we should reschedule for October or later. That will provide me some relief. Delta of course is a concern as well.
Thank you all!
Seems like the smart plan.
Anonymous
08/15/2021 11:01
Subject: Re:Nervous about get-together
OP here - thank you all. It's always hard to decline such well-meaning offers of help/celebration. I will politely inform them tomorrow that we should reschedule for October or later. That will provide me some relief. Delta of course is a concern as well.
Thank you all!
Thank you all!
Anonymous
08/14/2021 22:37
Subject: Nervous about get-together
Cancel. Do not reschedule. RSV and Covid are not friends of newborns.
Anonymous
08/14/2021 22:26
Subject: Nervous about get-together
RSV is going around right now and hospitals are seeing coinfections with covid in in babies. I would cancel.
Anonymous
08/14/2021 22:20
Subject: Nervous about get-together
Anonymous wrote:Some wonderful acquaintances (friends from a previous job) are so supportive and excited for me as I have my second child.
Today was my due date, and I honestly expected the baby would have been born by now as my first was 1.5 weeks early.
Earlier in the summer they said they wanted to host a get-together (like a post-baby shower) and we settled on early September. I thought, "the baby will be at least a month old, that will be perfect!"
Now that I'm looking at the calendar and I feel like time is ticking... I feel nervous that if I go another week or two (I'm committed to doing my best to have a natural delivery again with midwives, even if that means going up to 42 weeks), that means the baby would be 2 weeks or 3 weeks old when they have the party... and there's no way I want to do that.
I remember my first was born the week before Thanksgiving and people wanted us to get together and I just wanted to... sleep.
What would you do?
An in person get together with a 2 week old at the height of the Delta spike?
No, you need to cancel.
Anonymous
08/14/2021 22:16
Subject: Nervous about get-together
Just tell them you need to reschedule, and you'll reach out after the baby is born when you have a better idea of when you can get together to show them the baby. Don't schedule anything now - who knows how you'll feel then.
Anonymous
08/14/2021 22:13
Subject: Re:Nervous about get-together
I would ask to please postpone it by a full month due to the baby’s late arrival. They will understand.
Anonymous
08/14/2021 22:01
Subject: Nervous about get-together
Some wonderful acquaintances (friends from a previous job) are so supportive and excited for me as I have my second child.
Today was my due date, and I honestly expected the baby would have been born by now as my first was 1.5 weeks early.
Earlier in the summer they said they wanted to host a get-together (like a post-baby shower) and we settled on early September. I thought, "the baby will be at least a month old, that will be perfect!"
Now that I'm looking at the calendar and I feel like time is ticking... I feel nervous that if I go another week or two (I'm committed to doing my best to have a natural delivery again with midwives, even if that means going up to 42 weeks), that means the baby would be 2 weeks or 3 weeks old when they have the party... and there's no way I want to do that.
I remember my first was born the week before Thanksgiving and people wanted us to get together and I just wanted to... sleep.
What would you do?
Today was my due date, and I honestly expected the baby would have been born by now as my first was 1.5 weeks early.
Earlier in the summer they said they wanted to host a get-together (like a post-baby shower) and we settled on early September. I thought, "the baby will be at least a month old, that will be perfect!"
Now that I'm looking at the calendar and I feel like time is ticking... I feel nervous that if I go another week or two (I'm committed to doing my best to have a natural delivery again with midwives, even if that means going up to 42 weeks), that means the baby would be 2 weeks or 3 weeks old when they have the party... and there's no way I want to do that.
I remember my first was born the week before Thanksgiving and people wanted us to get together and I just wanted to... sleep.
What would you do?