Hey that's a great idea

I'd offer to have a smaller Christmas (maybe at New Years) at your house where you can put the baby down in a comfortable place, less people less germs... have people chip in to order pizzas instead of cooking, and/or have family bring desserts and drinks! You can always Video chat with them on Christmas Day, I'm sure someone will have Facebook and a smart phone!

I'm due 11/25 and am not traveling for the holidays. I don't want to risk my baby getting sick in cold/flu season. Our family is really understanding and will be coming to visit us, a couple at a time, in the months after she's born to help out.

@dallasnh12 yep I understand completely. I live in Tennesse. Even though my baby is 7 weeks 2 hours is my max anywhere

I think if baby gets fussy or overwhelmed we'll just head home.

Yeah. Under a month. I live in Georgia so usually Christmas is warm enough but you know sick people never stay home.

@athomas yeah I think we'll have to bite the bullet. I really don't want to offend anyone.

We had our baby on Halloween, she was due In November tho. But we didn't take her to Thanksgiving. Too many people and too many germs for not even a one month old for us to be comfortable with. For Christmas we took her to two dinners and had one at our house . But we didn't have her go to more than one a day because she seemed to get pretty overwhelmed with all the people, noise and commotion.

Or host it at your house

My husband is an ups driver. I would only stay at their houses hour max

Im having a nov baby well if he comes Nov since he's due on the 1st but i want to stay here for thanksgiving with my family and go to miami for Christmas for my bf family but also since his mom want us to come for my maternity leave since my bf have to get surgery more than likely we will be there for both thanksgiving and Christmas so idk yet i guess when it gets closer we will know but i at least want to go there twice a year so they can bond with baby

The last 2 years we've had breakfast here.

I'm worried about having people here. There's the stress of hosting in general, but I also have reason to not want certain people in my house right now (they have a bug problem and I don't want it coming here..)

I'm having a Nov baby .. & I haven't even thought about going out for thanksgiving. Christmas is usually at my house so no problem there. You have seriously made me start thinking about that . Thanks for this post