Holidays with a newborn

Sweetheart it’s your baby you get to say who can hold her . Don’t stress about it just put your boundaries in place

We went and it was great. It was nice because I could get a break too I made sure to have people have clean hands and what not when they held baby but it was great because it wasn’t all on me. I’m due around thanksgiving this year so we won’t be doing anything then unless baby comes before then we might have family come down and do a small thanksgiving. But for Christmas we will most likely go visit both of our families. I have two older children so no matter what we will be around germs. We will do typical things like don’t kiss baby on the mouth or hands wash your hands stuff like that. But we aren’t gonna isolate ourselves just because of a new baby. We will still visit family. This Christmas there are two new grandbabies on my husband side so it’ll be nice taking those new photos

it’s flu season and it’ll definitely be colder around that time. you get the first and final say in who gets to be around and hold your baby. if you’re not comfortable having her around a lot of people, just skip out this year. and if they don’t understand or try to force it, that’s on them and it will also tell you A LOT about them as well. because if they can’t respect your decisions when she’s this young, it’ll only get worse. don’t let anyone make you feel like you’re being too overprotective!! that’s your baby and if anyone has a problem, let them. she’s your main focus and don’t ever feel bad for the decisions you have to make.