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Step Mum kissed my baby

My step mum kissed my baby on the head on Sunday and then my dad tried to kiss him on the cheek, this is my second child so I have had to keep reminding them for 21 months now not to kiss them. I’d gone to make a tea and as I brought them in I heard my step mum say ‘don’t tell Mummy I kissed you’ I’m so upset by this. What would you do? I did say I hope you didn’t, and from now on they will never be left unsupervised with my children. But I feel like I really need to go off on them!

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I might be in the minority but I find this a bit sad. I’d understand if they were strangers, or you knew they were unwell, or maybe if they were kissing them on the lips… but it seems mad for a grandparent to never be allowed to kiss their grandchild on the cheek. Is that really the going advice these days ☹️ Not trying to be judgy but just wondered if other people feel the same way and if that’d give you piece of mind x

@Sophie Yeah I do understand that, but my nephew has a cold sore and they both kiss him, so I feel there’s an added risk with them & I’m just not prepared to take it. I don’t have an issue with them giving my older son a kiss, and that was from about 12 months so it’s not that they never can. I’ve already been in A&E with my little one as he was poorly and I just can’t do it again x

I caught my dad kissing my 3 month old on the lips last week .. the older generation think we are crazy for putting in the no kissing rule .. they won’t think we are crazy when our babies wind up on hospital

@Amanda on the lips is wild! I find it really disrespectful 😳

@Sophie I know! And when I told him off he just blanked me and pretended I didn’t exist! He then fell asleep on the sofa holding him yesterday which is one of my biggest fears .. and again when I told him off my mum told me it was my anxiety speaking …

@Amanda omg I would be so angry at this whole situation 😭 my grandma is like this (not to me luckily) but thinks every young mum is a lunatic for being so overly cautious about things 😩

We've told people no kissing our baby at all just so they're not tempted to kiss their face. My partners mum completely ignored us and kissed the back of his head three times. I get it's safe to do so but if someone asks you not to kiss their baby you shouldn't be kissing at all!! Anywhere! In my opinion anyway. We've had a massive argument with my partners mum after asking her for the 5th time not to. It worries me if someone ignores one simple boundary that we won't respect any other boundaries :/

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