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Original poster

to think this woman has guts to the point of being nuts?

81 replies

Andrewofgg · 02/08/2011 21:10

She brought her baby in to work today to show her off at seven days old!

OK, her DH drove her there and back and cheated the wardens by driving round and round the block - but even so . . .

By the time she left she looked knackered and most of you can imagine better than I how knackered she must have been.

But the baby was gorgeous . . .

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DeWe · 02/08/2011 22:33

Ds went into dd1's school and dd2's preschool at about 8 hours old. Teachers were more excited than the children. The head said he was the youngest baby she'd ever held.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 02/08/2011 22:35

I think DS was 4 days old, I mainly came out because I wanted to show off because I was back in my size 8 skinny jeans...

6 months maternity leave soon sorted that out.

Grin
piprabbit · 02/08/2011 22:36

I waited until my DD was 4yo before I took her into work.
Couldn't face the commute before that.

HipHopOpotomus · 02/08/2011 22:43

I was out and about with DD2 from day 2 - walked with dp to collect dd1 from childminmder. Took her into work around 8 days - in car - really no biggie.

Didn't take dd1 out so much but it was late November and wet

LargeGlassofRed · 02/08/2011 22:44

Went to tesco with 2 day old twins in a heatwave, because I really needed strawberrys and cream! Which Dp had forgot to buy.

Nearly fainted on the walk home, and decided I was a stupid bugger! :-)

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Andrewofgg · 02/08/2011 22:51

Just to be clear: I was surprised but not disapproving.

As for you, mayorquimby, if mother and baby can cope at whatever age the baby is, why not? Don't be such a misery. It gives immense pleasure to all concerned.

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wonkylegs · 02/08/2011 22:56

My mum was back at work a week after having me but she was in a high flying job where it was rare to be a woman. I was a very good little baby and apparently attended quite a few high flying business meetings in London in my first few months of life (ok I just lay in the corner in a Moses basket)

When I had DS it took 3 days of begging + having a dr for a DH for them to even let me out of the hospital. I couldn't walk very well let alone carry my DS by myself for the 1st fortnight Sad but our 1st proper trip out was for a posh lunch just after that with DS curled up in his pram. Can't remember when I 1st took him in to work but can remember BF him there Grin I'm the only female professional in the office, so the visit very quickly became a ceiling inspection for my colleagues

D0G · 02/08/2011 23:04

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duchesse · 02/08/2011 23:14

I started work again (work from home, self-employed) 16 days after a CS and 9 day stay in hospital with DD3. TBH since I could with my laptop work from bed (and did) there was nothing in it. With the others (normal vaginal births), I was out and about again very quickly- eg down to playgroup 3 days after DD1 was born, to a major shopping centre within the first week. Some births are easier than others, some births are easier to bounce back from.

bristolcities · 02/08/2011 23:28

I walked in to town and had lunch at a cafe with my 1 day old ds. I'm not sure it was the right thing to do for some thing so new to the world but I loved it.

mayorquimby · 03/08/2011 12:20

"As for you, mayorquimby, if mother and baby can cope at whatever age the baby is, why not? Don't be such a misery. It gives immense pleasure to all concerned."

Not bothered about if they can cope or not and clearly it's not an immense pleasure to all involved, I find it irritating. Just don't see why they feel the need to bring a baby in to the work-place and seem offended if I don't get up to look at it. Glad I work for myself now as it doesn't happen anymore.

KateBC · 03/08/2011 12:32

One of my friends made it to DSs first birthday party that I had in a communal park, despite having a 3 day old baby! She also remembered a present, very impressed

OhdearNigel · 03/08/2011 12:40

Mine was born on Friday, went into work on the Tuesday. We were out walking with her on the Saturday. I was incredibly lucky to have had a very easy delivery and felt fine afterwards.
My Mum was in the hairdressers on the morning K was delivered, we went in on our way home with our 5 hour old daughter. I was completely on a high of adrenaline at that point and didn't think it was at all odd !

vegetariandumpling · 03/08/2011 12:50

I lived in a country where it's normal practice for mother and baby not to go out or even leave the bedroom for the first month. They also can't shower but that's by the by...

I lived in a flat once and in one of the rooms there was a family, mum, dad, and paternal GM and eventually a new born. The GM was very strict about not letting the mum or baby out and she had to spend a whole month in that room with her MIL and screaming baby Sad

bananasplitz · 03/08/2011 12:54

i was still in hospital on the 7th day

them were the days :)

ragged · 03/08/2011 13:30

I brought 2 day old DC2 to a toddler group.
Got a bit of a rep for that one... :).
I did bring DH with me. It was my favourite toddler group & DC1 needed to get out.

mum0ftw0 · 03/08/2011 13:37

I was actually back at work, laboring on a building site, carring around hoards of bricks when DS2 was still 2 hours old.
I had to snip the umbillical cord on the tea break, stuck him in the sling shoved a breast in his mouth and carried on brick laying.
I did a 12 hour shift, before going home for 8 hours and back at work next day.
No time for moping about, got bills to pay yaknow

lionheart · 03/08/2011 13:42

Ha, a woman at the school gave birth at two in the morning and tottered in to collect her children at 3.15.

Geordieminx · 03/08/2011 13:43

PMSL

These threads always turn into a competition.

"I gave birth up a tree, without any pain relief, to a 15lb baby, was back in my skinnies within 30 minutes ruling the world"

OhYouBadBadKitten · 03/08/2011 13:47

it is fine for people to go out and about as early as they like, it is not fine though if this confers pressure on those who arent able to get out for what ever reason. There is no way I'd have been able to be out and about in the first few days even with a normal delivery and healthy baby and I wouldnt have wanted to.

DesperatelySeekingSedatives · 03/08/2011 13:50

It's pure adrenaline you live on in those very first days ime. It's all a bit of a blur with DD but with DS I felt great. So great infact I manged to pick up DD from nursery 8 hours after the birth! admittedly it was on the way home from having the baby and DP drove us there but then I dont drive anyway.

PacificDogwood · 03/08/2011 13:51

DH insisted on showing DS4 off to his colleagues and co-workers before we left hospital, about 6 hours after delivery Grin!

Do I win? Do I? Do I??

After that we did not leave the house or answer the door bell for about 2 weeks....

DesperatelySeekingSedatives · 03/08/2011 13:57

Grin at Geordieminx I noticed that too, hence my competative post!

Kveta · 03/08/2011 14:05

well I took DS to work before he was even born! Do I win £5?

oh, wait...

Linnet · 03/08/2011 14:24

I took dd1 into work at 6 days old as we were in town and popped in on the way past.

I took dd2 to dd1's parents evening when she was 6 days old, the teachers and other parents we saw were delighted to see her.

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