To think this is classic PFB?

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Friend just posted this photo on Facebook, with the caveat that she's got 6 weeks to go and wouldn't be "taking any risks" with her baby girl.

It's ridiculous. People would need about ten vaccinations as most adults would not have had anything other than travel jabs in the past few years.

I had a growth restricted premmie and was nothing like that precious.

Wow - I wonder how they would know if you had your jabs?

I mean seriously, do you have to take some sort of certificate? Also, what adult knows i they are harbouring whooping cough?

navyandwhite you wouldn't kiss your newborn? Or let the father kiss them? or any siblings? shame :(

Oh jeez. She seems to think everyone she has ever met is just dying to meet her wonderful creation. Doesn't she know people have their own lives and children to care for?

I don't think people other than parents or siblings should be kissing newborns on their face.... I don't want anyone other than my husband and child kissing me so don't really think it should be different for a baby. Don't see the need for it, I've never felt the urge to kiss someone else's child.

I wouldn't post that on Facebook, but I do ask visitors to wash their hands before holding the baby. I don't think good hand hygiene is PFB.

I'm currently silently cursing my MIL for visiting with a cold this weekend, as I've now had 2 sleepless nights with my 3month old. Poor DS.

DTs were prem - when they came home I didn't let anyone touch them without alcohol gel and they weren't allowed round if they had a cold, wasn't worth the risk. Simple measures that we followed from NICU / SCBU.

When we went out, it was this time of year, I was told by the nurses to keep the raincovers on the buggy to stop people sticking and their heads in and touching them.

So whilst that awful meme is incredibly pfb there may be a reason behind it, especially in RSV season which can make healthy term babies very ill.

I'm back and forth on this one. I don't use Facebook and would never out something like this on there, it does seem a bit...much, especially 6 weeks prior to birth.

But I get it, I'm due next week holy fuck with PFB, I've got some antibacterial handwash/gel ready and we joke about having a "decontamination station" on entering the house "like they had in the farm when there was strangles about". And especially at his time of year surely hand washing would be something most people would expect to have to when visiting at new baby? I'm not planning on demanding all visitors give up their medical history though

My nephew was hospitalised with pneumonia at 5 weeks. Completely healthy born, picked up a bug, knocked him sideways. 7 years ago and it still has repurcussions.

I agree that it's the delivery and intent of putting it on Facebook that makes me go

A yes the spelling isn't American. The grammar is weird then - why is it phrased like that?

I don't disagree with not wanting the baby to have grubby hands shoved in its mouth, be kissed by people with snotty noses, or be held by the proudly unvaccinated (especially children who might have poor hygiene) though and do wonder if it has been posted with someone in mind.

A one time friend of mine fell out with me for not letting her 5 and 3 year old have free reign with newborn DC3 - she thought that as he was DC3 I would be "relaxed" which meant apparently that Is let her small children use him as a doll essentially - she'd promised them I'd be happy to let them "look after" him during their visit and they were most put out and vocal about how their mummy had said I'd let them look after him, pick him up, carry him, kiss him, poke and prod him and put fingers in his mouth to see if he had teeth and were upset I only let them have a supervised cuddle on the sofa then took him back. Being relaxed is great but no compensation when your baby is full of cold and you are getting no sleep, or when a kid drops them, or when they catch something potentially dangerous like chicken pox. Measles or hooping cough.

Oh yes - anyone that sticks their fucking fingers in my baby's mouth deserves for them to be cut off! It's so unhygienic and unnecessary, it gives me the rage!!! (Sorry, had an awkward interaction with a family member about this recently!).

It'll be 8 weeks without visitors, 1st round of immunisations are then not 6 weeks.
I was much more paranoid with dc1 than dc2, something to do with dc1 being a walking licking snotty germ factory

Mine got a good old licking from the dogs by way of introduction and DS2 got lots of grubby kisses and cuddles from his brother. We are made to live in the real world, and as my dear old grandma used to say "you've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die".

yes. I'd be tempted to ignore just to piss them off.

Pretty sure if you breastfeed your baby and have been immunised yourself, then baby is safe. May be making that up but my daughter met another child with whooping cough when she was a couple of weeks old and was fine.

I think trying to minimise exposure to viruses and things in the early months is sensible. Yes the picture isn't my cup of tea but I can see where they are coming from.

You can't wrap in cotton wool, you can't protect from everything but you can minimise risk.

Ds developed RSV at 8 weeks old. He was critically ill and now 7 years down the line we know that the consequences of that for
him will last for life.

Especially at this time of year which is peak RSV season I can fully understand people taking precautions

I think if babies are prem, ill or at risk of catching illness then this could apply. otherwise no very PFB or whatever it is!

Well that's your gift sorted, a bulk pack of Zoflora.

i worried all the time about my pfb catching anything - we never thought we'd have her, she felt like a miracle and little babies can get very sick, very fast. TBH I'd judge anyone that went to visit a child under 6 months with a cold or not feeling 100% people are too blase.

super ds was a term baby and perfectly healthy until he developed RSV.

Well of course you won't want anyone who's under the weather visiting, but demanding they get immunised seems a bit much. I certainly wouldn't visit a new baby if I had a cold or any other illness but if I was told I could only visit if I'd been recently vaccinated then I'd happily say thanks but no thanks!

Sirzy - same here. DD was term, exclusively breastfed and thriving. Didn't stop her being very ill with RSV. She caught it from her preschooler siblings - probably little that would have stopped it, but I will never be cavalier about (cold) germs and babies again.

The immunisation thing is a bit weird, everything else I kind of agree with though!

Well to be fair my PFB (perfect fourth born) caught whooping cough before he was six weeks old and it wasn't very nice tbh. My other dc had been immunised so he picked it up either on the school run or when out and about so even with the precautions your friend wants there are no guarantees.

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Really wouldn't have occurred to me. Dd was regularly slobbered on by dog. She got her immunity from his germs through me .

In all seriousness, the sentiment is fine but the delivery is pants.

the delivery is certainly pants - let's face it, they're in for the shock of their lives, if they want to live with their baby in a protective cell for 6 weeks, good luck to them!

Come to think of it, they have a dog so not sure how they're going to manage a germ-free environment.