To take ten week old to school nativity

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Ft poster but long time watcher!

School nativity on Friday . I have a ten week old and I'm a little worried about him catching some sort of cold/illness from being around all the germy children and poorly staff. I work there but on mat leave so staff probably want to get close/hold him when we see them and I know a large number of them have been off poorly/ Are struggling on slightly under the weather until the end of term. So AIBU to take him or not?

If you're worried then don't.
If you think you can manage it and keep DC reasonably clear of sick people then do

Remember you are on maternity leave so much as it's nice to show face, I'm sure your collegues would rather you had a nice few weeks over Christmas with your lovely new addition rather than have a poorly baby.

Congratulations by the way

You don’t have to take him and certainly wouldn’t be unreasonable not to. But if you do want to you could put him on a sling. Then it’ll be harder for people to get too close. You can just say he’s sleeping so they can’t hold him right now. That’s what I did when I didn’t want people touching or holding mine when they were so small.

Thank you :) I would love to go but I also don't want a poorly baby before Christmas but I'm not sure if I'm being too 'PFB' about it. So undecided still but thank you for your kind words!

I do have a sling but I'm a bit under confident in wearing it/him. Every time I've tried so far he has cried which makes me panic I'm not wearing him properly even though a friend of mine who is quite experienced with slings says it/he looks fine. Maybe need to practise a lot tomorrow!

I thought this was going to be a completely different OP. Many schools ask parents not to bring babies to school performances because the risk that the babies cry, parents don't remove them and no one can hear the children performing. So I thought you were going to be one of the parents complaining about that.

I'm not sure that the nativity play is the best time to take your baby to school as the focus should be on the children performing. Do you have an older child in the nativity or have your colleagues invited you?

Oh yes definitely would take him out. Not fair on the parents of the children in the show otherwise, much as I love the little ones up there myself!

Don’t take him if it’s going to stress you out. I think I was the same with dc1. (and may be with dc2 as well when he / she arrives)!

Our school reception teacher is on mat leave and brought her gorgeous 14 week old baby PFB to the nativity today. It was so lovely to see her and the baby. She seemed to enjoy showing her off to us parents. Go, I bet you be pleased you did x

Nooka, My colleagues have invited me and it's more of an excuse to see them after the show when the children have gone home. Though I'd love to see the children in their show and after, and some of the parents too as they were so kind and gave me gifts etc before I went on mat leave.