Boundaries when baby is here

How is everyone going about telling family members about when they want visitors, and not kissing baby. I didn’t fuss to much with my first born as she was born during Covid and no one could come round and obviously there frequent testing when sick, but now being due in a few weeks and it coming into cold and flu season, I just don’t feel comfortable with it, especially because all family members are around kids and we all know how kids catch everything 😂

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I'm fortunate my family and my partners family have said to message them when I'm ready for visitors and they'll schedule a time that suits me based on what routine I've found suits me and baby whether thats a week, 2 weeks, or a month.

My partner only gets 2 weeks paternity so a lot of them have said they'll visit after that if I need help transitioning from having him home all the time to being left frequently (like separation anxiety). If they don't feel well the day before or day of they'll let me know and reschedule, or if I change my mind. They all live local so just a 10 mins heads up is all that is needed to cancel/change.

We are just going to take it day by day once we are home as want to be in our own little bubble for at least a few days as well as recover and rest and that goes for both me and my partner and adjust in our own time without pressure as its our first. When we feel up to visitors we will arrange with them as we feel up to it and if rhe day comes and we haven't had a good night or not feeling 100% then reschedule as needed. Got to put yourselves and baby first so do what's right for you.

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