Newborn boundaries

I'm suprised by these responses🤦🏼‍♀️kissing a baby is absolutely harmful and can pass them things like coldsores, RSV and the flu whicn can be fatal for babies in some rare cases. Not kissing babies I thought was common knowledge

@gogohmm It’s been against the recommended guidelines for years. Midwives tell you constantly throughout your pregnant not to allow it from anyone other than the babies mum and dad, as if can spread illness.

Hundreds of people will come to say they’ve kissed 9 million babies now and everything has been fine but it’s the current advice, and has been for a while.

@TaylorSwifting Baby advice changes. People tend to get stuck in the advice as it was when they had their baby. I’ve found it easier to pretend everyone has no knowledge at all and direct them nicely, and we’ve had no pushback.

In real life, though, nobody tried to kiss our baby, or hold him without washing their hands. Mumsnet made me think that’d be a much bigger problem than it was! And weirdly we don’t know many smokers. If anyone had, I’d imagine it’d be the type of thing you’d only need to point out once.

You would think but my FIL dived right in and kissed our little boy 🤦🏼‍♀️ we also visited another time when he would barely have been 2 weeks old and he went out the back door at their house to smoke but it’s a very small house and the back door was open, the room was filling with smoke and he came back in stinking of smoke and rubbed the baby’s head without having washed his hand, breathing smoke all over him. After that I said we weren’t taking him back there when he was small as my husband doesn’t stand up to them enough to set some boundaries. If it was my parents I would instantly have said no way

Not smoking, sure.

But human contact by hands, kissing etc won't hurt a human baby.

Not smoke fair enough but I presume adults will already do adequate hand washing eg after using toilet and what is wrong with kissing a baby?