One day old baby in pub

[Frenchie01]

So family member gave birth to first baby yesterday afternoon, she's a very young mum only 17 , normal delivery but episiotomy, baby good weight healthy. Was discharged home today and a couple of hours later was at the local pub not drinking alcohol just showing baby off and eating a meal , but am I right in thinking a day old baby baby is really too young to be in a pub or anywhere really , also worried she should be resting as obviously will be sore. Other family members have said I'm being old fashioned am I.

I’ve seen 2 separate tiny newborns in my local since this post appeared. Both groups meeting up with friends or relatives in the first few days of their babies’ lives. So it’s clearly not an unusual occurrence. And they weren’t even eating a meal - just having a drink!

Nice! Maybe the new parents know that if they were at home they’d have to wait on all these guests 😆

I found this post on an article online. It said the comments were leaning towards the OP being unreasonable, and what the mom did was ok. I was right in assuming people would think differently if it was posted somewhere else. The comments on the article agreed with OP. They said a newborn baby doesn't have a good enough immune system to be out and about. Also, there might not be smoking, but likely to be some drinking. People can do dumb things when drinking, like fighting. Not sure why anyone would take these chances with a newborn. Not about the mom feeling up to it, but what's best/safest for the baby.

Behind all this is a young mum who will face enough judgement in her life , I hope she never comes across this thread and I hope her journey is continuing nicely. I notice op hasn't commented in a while.

I’m going to guess you’re not in the UK. There won’t be drunkenness and fighting in a UK pub restaurant on a weekday lunchtime, it’s very unlikely at any time, actually.

If you're going to places where you see drunkeness and fighting in a pub on a Wednesday lunchtime, you're going to the wrong places...

When I had my first born in SW London there was a weekly morning NCT breastfeeding drop in clinic / coffee morning meet up and afterwards we often went to the pub across the road for lunch and a drink. They had plenty of space for mums, babies, buggies and the occasional dad or grandparent .

brilliant actually. So I don’t see the problem at all!

I think that's sad. Perhaps she has no-one to support her, all her friends are her age and don't have children. The saddest sight I have seen in a pub (so not the saddest thing ever) was a young woman in our local with a baby in a pushchair and a toddler, both fractious. It was seven or eight in the evening on a summer's day, but she appeared to have no-one with her, it wasn't an afternoon out with the DC, she was just on her own and craving company. It made me want to weep.

A pub in England at lunchtime, which serves food, will not have drunkeness and fighting. It's unlikely at any time, in fact, though evenings can be noisy. A pub restaurant is just a restaurant and a perfectly fine place for a baby to be with its mother.
It's true there will be some drinking of alcohol, of course, it's a pub. 🙄

My local pub has a children's menu, Colouring things and even a kids zone where they can get books or games.