One day old baby in pub

Not good with the amount of airborne infections doing the rounds at the moment. Newborn babies need to be protected, whooping cough, flu , RSV and covid can be very dangerous for young babies.

The day after DS was born I took him blackberry picking, saved me bending to pick the low growing ones. He seemed to really enjoy it.
😉😁😁.

I had my first in a fancy gastropub within the first few days for lunch: never even stirred. They’re pretty robust and portable at this age.
I love that this young lady is so proud of her baby and is embedding the baby in her life.

Yes, with my oldest there was a CONSTANT stream of visitor (every man and his bloody dog) and I had no energy for housekeeping and hours of entertaining. I later heard of sip & see parties and frankly think its genius, hire somewhere and then get it all out of the way at once in a nice little celebration.

Talking of celebrations, 'Wetting the Head' has always been a tradition, of course mothers (who did all the work) should get to celebrate too (its not the 1800s) if they physically can so a pub is the traditional place to be.

I don't know if it was because it was our first baby or because we where the first in the friend groups to have a baby but it was exhausting and so privacy invading, luckily no such mad rush happened with baby 2 and 3.

And what if your other kids need taking to school?

You’re being unreasonable yes. If she feels ok I think it’s great. They do say v young mothers do better in a way as they don’t overthink everything as older mothers do. Perfect example right here!

If my dad had has his way, I’d have been delivered in the back room of the pub so him and my mum could have a pint the second the cord was cut. I don’t think it’s bad, it’s nice she wants to show baby off. I’d maybe be a bit worried if there was no sober person there or she got absolutely trashed, but to me this seems fine. We took DD to a pub when she was very little because at the time we both worked there and everyone wanted to see the Wetherspoons baby. Came out the womb pouring cheap pints and microwaving curries.

I hated people coming to the house as they always overstayed their welcome, whereas going out somewhere and then being able to leave if you felt tired etc seems like a much better idea to me.

I was in the hospital for a few days with each of mine, but was out about as soon as I could. With my youngest that was the next day as school run etc

Crikey, I couldn’t stand up! Maybe she’s a bit in shock and it’s not sunk in yet 😂 x

Its fine as long as the baby is suitably wrapped in protective layer of cotton wool and baby safe clingfilm.

What about a cafe?

What’s wrong with taking a baby into a pub? It’s not as if you can smoke in public places any more, so what harm can it do?

I’m pretty sure newborns are very protected against a lot of viruses/illnesses because they still have protective antibodies from the placenta. So if mum has had her MMR jabs then that protection is passed on to her baby and remains until the baby is a few months old.

It's her life and her baby

Keep your nose out

No way in this world would I take a 1 day old baby to a pub. But that is just me.

I went for a lovely family meal in our local pub the day after DS2 was born. The extended family wanted to meet him. I was a bit sore but had a nice tasty roast and baby slept in his pram for most of it apart from a quick breastfeed while I was eating sticky toffee pudding

My eldest is 18 now we had to move house the day after she was born.
So I went to the pub with her for a meal while everyone did all the heavy lifting.
The younger ones have had to do school run, club drop off etc has soon we out the hospital.

Sit it in a car with a bottle of pop and a bag of crisps. Never did me any harm

Already posted but to add, I was in a cafe with my very premature baby the day after discharge so she was 5 days old but still weeks below her true birth date and very weak. My reason was that her twin remained in a neonatal ward and I went to visit but then had to wait for a few hours for a Dr to visit and confirm whether I could take him home that day. There was no where else to wait around and i had a 5 yr old who was hungry. I couldn't leave him home because DH needed to mind them, newborn baby that was discharged wasn't allowed visit the ward where other twin was so we all had to go. Its not something I would have intentionally done but there we were...and it was absolutely fine.

Supermarket staff with fucked up opinions and an attitude thats its ok to share them with customers it seems.

I'd like to know which supermarket has the shittest staff.

I'd rather have a 1 day old than a 2 yr old in the pub.

It’s really no wonder rates of PND are so high when women are expected to stay home laying in bed for days on end with their baby with little opportunity for things they enjoy or that bring them a sense of connection with other people besides their baby.

My cousin went grocery shopping in Tesco on the way home from hospital. Baby in the baby seat. She shouldn't have been lifting bags but as she said herself, who else is going to do it? Not everyone has a team fussing around them. I think if the Mum is OK then the baby is too. It's only a few hours no doubt she will be exhausted afterwards. Many people who are at home are busy with callers anyhow so it's much the same, maybe she feels she will be left alone for a few days now that everyone has seen baby.

What's so unsafe about a supermarket? 😂

I do remember being chided by a supermarket worker when I had DS in a sling at about 3 weeks old, who said “that baby should be safe at home”. I was buying nappies, washing detergent and chocolate and going to the supermarket was the highlight of my day.