To give a newborn a house tour

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At work today I was talking to a pregnant colleague and she said it will be so strange taking a baby home and what do you actually do with a baby when you get home from hospital and I said with mine I took them on a tour of the house to show themwhere everything is and where they would be sleeping. By this point other colleagues had joined the conversation and thought it was funny and weird that I did this. I assumed most people would do this when they bring their babies home. Am i weird or is this normal 🙈🤣🤣

It's funny, but I respect your whimsy, OP 🫡🧚

I was in hospital for 5 days with DD1... was so relieved to finally escape I was full of energy so we turned up for dinner with friends who hadn't heard the baby was born....

With DD2 I was in a haze dealing with a toddler (who ad came down with a stomach bug) and a newborn baby.

Oh the first time I visited my parents my lovely dad took them on a tour of the house, told them about all the artists that drew the pictures, the garden "where we will play" all the flowers and plants.

It's lovely OP. DP did this with DD, as well as introducing her to the DCat. She probably couldn't see much but that doesn't matter.

Ooh, I did this as well.
I also showed my puppy around and told her where she was and wasn't allowed to go.

When we brought DS1 home, our two cats had quite an epic fight about whose territory he was, then stopped guarding him from one another and went to sleep. We had a cup of tea and kind of thought "Shit, we're parents". He's 20 now, so we didn't fuck up in the end 😂

Not weird at all, treating your newborn as a valued member of the family. You'd show an older child around a new home why not an infant?

Not weird at all! Rather lovely in fact.

I don't altogether remember arriving home with ds1 - probably chucked him in the moses basket and lay down for a nap. Wasn't in any fit state to think about advanced things like tours. Ds2 I do remember showing him to ds1 and saying he's got knees and toes.

That's really cute!

We also sat on the sofa just looking at him for ages thinking oh shit! Now what!

We did go via the macdonalds drive through on the way home so it did occur to me that this was the first place we ever took him!

I think this is lovely. Talking to your baby and cuddling them is all part of bonding. Who cares whether they can understand or not.

After an EMCS and 5 day hospital stay I think when we got home DS "tour" was "here's your cot and that's mummies bed - that she's getting in right now" 😂

But seriously I think what you did sounds lovely. We all talk to our newborns as if they understand. But they learn our voices and know it's us so it's a good thing. Even if he did t know how to get to the bathroom by 3 days old!

I did this but she wasn't a newborn by the time we got her home.

I did this 🥰

Weird - but in a cute way. With ds1, we walked home from the hospital (only 20 min) and what I did was sit down on the sofa with him and demand a cup of tea. Then we watched Finding Nemo and I cried because the mummy fish dies and realised I was changed forever.

That's the weirdest and most lovely thing I've ever heard 😍

I did this with the puppy too!

We did this! It felt the right thing to do, to welcome a new member of the family in.

Aww we did this too, just wandered around saying ‘and this is your big bro’s room, I’m sure you’ll spend time in here watching him playing games as you get older’ there’s a big age gap between them but it’s so cute now seeing him doing exactly that (they’re 15 and 2) both sat on beanbags chilling out together.

We did similar in each room, didn’t really even think about it, we just ‘showed him around’ 😁

You're not the only one OP, we must be weird too 😂

Sheffield Wednesday were playing on the telly when we brought DS home so we cuddled on the settee while DH introduced him to the team that would break his heart for the rest of his life!

I don't think its weird but I don't think it's common (what the hell is normal anyway?!) I think it's sweet

I did this too. Little mite had everything narrated to him for weeks.

What a lovely idea!
My dad used to do it when I took newborn DS to his house, i think it was partly to give me a break as DS was a bowler, but he would walk all round talking to him about the rooms they were going in and the things they were looking at . Ds always settled

Im Loving hearing what you all did when you brought your babies home

That is cute, but no it's not a thing 😂
You do know they can't see properly, I am not sure what I did actually, I was in a lot of pain and had stiches so I probably hobbled into bed and cried.