Lateral flow testing before visiting my new baby

[Neleh91]

Hello, I’m thinking ahead I know but lots of people I know just seen to be getting covid recently.
My partner and I have decided that once baby is here ( due dec ) that if anyone wants to visit, we would ask them to do a home test first just to protect baby. My family and his would have NO issues with this but some of my friends are a bit strange about the vaccine.. testing etc.. I mentioned to one of them and she thinks it’s not fair to ask people to do that. Just wonders what everyone thinks? Is it too much.. I just feel like it’s safer for baby.

Agreed. Bronchiolitis is awful. My daughter caught it at 7 days and was touch and go. No colds near newborns.

Totally fair

I got married I. July and asked all guests for hen and wedding to do of on that morning

3 came up positive , all lived away from each other good thing they tested

I think a lot of people are quite naive if they think secondary age pupils, people going into offices, etc. are all routinely doing a LFT twice a week.

YABU to think lateral flow tests are accurate enough to protect your baby. They only pick up about half of asymptomatic cases.

If you’re worried about safety then limit the number of visitors, keep the house as well ventilated as possible and insist on masks and hand washing.

I can’t believe anyone would have an issue with it.

@Aorh I know, it's such a simple painless thing to do that has the potential to save someone else's life. But one thing we have learned over the past 18 months is that there are a hell of a lot of stupid and selfish arseholes out there.

@Darkstar4855 even if your statistic was correct which it isn't, identifying 50% of cases would still be massively better than identifying the 0% that not testing would.
Recent research by UCL shows they are over 90% effective at identifying those most infectious. Link Yes the tests are not quite perfect but they are one simple and easy to implement tool that we do have at our disposal. But you are also very correct that limiting numbers, ventilation, masks and handwashing are also tools we have (though hand washing should have been a given even before covid)

OP YANBU, It should be a given that someone would take a test before visiting a newborn (actually even before vising someone else's home), and anyone who would have an issue doing that for you is probably someone you want to reconsider your friendship with.
Maybe those have an issue with testing could write a short essay instead? In 100 words or less complete the following:
"Please accept my condolences on your loss. Sorry i killed your baby with Covid, spending 30 seconds twirling a cotton bud up my nose was too difficult to do because . . . . . . . . . . . ."

I can't ever get my head around any reluctance to protect a new born from germs.

Then when one says, wash hands, don't kiss with cold sore, don't cough into babies face etc some one says "how stupid they need germs soon enough they'll be crawling and picking up germs".

Yes, we need germs and at age appropriate time they will pick up germs but just not as "new born".

How can people be so utterly selfish?