taking newborn out
When did you take your newborn out for the first time? What precautions did you take to ensure safety and health?
I waited 6 weeks to take her anywhere besides the doctors. Even now, she is 12 weeks today and we don't leave too much. She's never been to the grocery store only the doctors, church and my sisters house. I'm way too nervous about her catching RSV and it's so cold here. Regularly negative degrees with feet of snow. It's just such a hassle to leave. She loves to eat and is ebf and won't take a bottle.
At 10 days old my husband insisted we take our daughter over to see his family because his siblings hadn't seen her yet. Then he and his dad took our car to run an errand and disappeared for hours. I ended up finding out they had stoped somewhere to watch a football game. I eventually called a friend to give my daughter and I a ride home because his 4 teenage siblings were stressing me out and I was exhausted. This time I'm telling him if his family wants to see the baby they can come over to our place. I am refusing to go over there when we have a newborn this time.
My daughter is a preemie, so once I got her home from the NICU, she didn't go out of the house unless it was necessary (doctors appointments) for about the first 3-4 weeks, and I only let select people come to the house and visit with her. I'm still very selective about who she is around! When I take her out with me, she's covered up almost the entire time.
All 4 of our kids were out and about the day we got discharged, so like 24 hrs old. The more kids you have, the harder it is to stay inside. Not that I've ever tried to keep a newborn inside. I've never had a problem with strangers trying to look into the carseat thankfully. But in the color months I have a carseat cover. I just make sure they are dressed right.
Same as the ladies anywhere within a week. She had her newborn photos at 6 days old but the day we got discharged we went to Kmart to get some specific underwear because of my c section. She was in a capsule connected to the pram with a light muslin cloth on top. All was good!
OK that makes me feel more at ease. We have a car seat canopy over his car seat at all times and I'm super paranoid about hand washing and sanitizer for the whole family.
Those are so cute @cupcakes
13 hours. Hat & blanket.
We went over to hospital to have newborn health check then popped to grocery store. Went out again maybe 3 days later.