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What's the earliest I can take newborn out of the house in the pram for a walk?

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user1486225077 · 05/02/2017 10:47

We have a six-day-old and I need to give her mum a break for an hour or so. Am I okay to take her out in the pram? She and her mum are dubious, but it's 13 degrees and I have friends who did it in London in November...

Thanks!

Rich

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alibubbles · 05/02/2017 17:30

My client walked home from the hospital pushing the pram as she lived round the corner.

PollytheDolly · 05/02/2017 17:37

Awww new mummy xx fresh air is good!!

Congratulations and enjoy 💕

specialsubject · 05/02/2017 17:40

what worries me is that it is the baby's mother that is dubious. So she is unlikely to be more than 40, and hence was educated in the 20th century.

and she thinks that the baby will explode if it breathes air at 13 degrees.

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Anatidae · 05/02/2017 17:40

I took Ds out at -18 ;) Swedish baby...

Wrap up, full tummy, clean nappy. All good

WindwardCircle · 05/02/2017 17:42

I love this site sometimes. I have now learned that in Italy a slight breeze is considered terribly dangerous, especially to babies. In the past I have learned that in Scandinavia babies need to be put outside to sleep in all weathers, in Germany outdoor play is very important but woe betide you if you don't put a warm hat on your child, and in France it's essential to keep the kidneys warm .

ineedwine99 · 05/02/2017 17:44

Go for it, i took baby out at 2 days old, needed new clothes for her as she was too teeny for everything we had bought
Congratulations and enjoy

FromIbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 05/02/2017 17:45

When I took DS into town when he was about 5 or 6 days old (not his first trip outdoors by any means but first jaunt into town) 2 elderly ladies in a shop, who asked how old DS was, were stunned that I was out with him so soon.

They told me how back in their day women were advised to stay at home with the baby until they were about 6 weeks old!

Jeez I would have been climbing the walls by the end of week 1!

RJnomore1 · 05/02/2017 17:52

and from this thread I have just learned that my mother would appear to be Italian! 😂

NarkyMcDinkyChops · 05/02/2017 17:54

what worries me is that it is the baby's mother that is dubious. So she is unlikely to be more than 40, and hence was educated in the 20th century

She probably is nearly 40, if Italian. And you do understand that other cultures and countries have their own ideas about things that you might find very odd, and they might even find your ideas very odd?

Crumbs1 · 05/02/2017 17:59

When I had my sixth we stopped at Waitrose on way home from hospital- she must have been three hours or thereabouts. Fresh air is good for them.

Camomila · 05/02/2017 18:57

Hi User, as a fellow Italian I know all about the famous 'colpo d'aria', I first took DS out of the house (in April!) at about a week old, wrapped in a big fleecy blanket for about 5 minutes to look at the trees in the garden then came back in again because that was enough fresh air
Just wrap up warm and if they are dubious maybe just stay out for 20mins/30mins as a first mini outing.

But seriously, we lived in Livigno when I was a baby and my DM would take me for walks in my pram up to -15.

Nowadays DS is usually wearing the least layers of the other babies around as he doesn't like being too hot...I got over my fear of the colpo d'aria

Northernlurker · 05/02/2017 19:30

Dh is Scottish and v robust re babies but even he was shocked to visit friends in Sweden and find them putting their baby outside in the pram in the snow.
Now what about Eastern European inlaws and their penchant for feeding dc Epic amounts of sweets and chocolate? I have a friend whose Russian inlaws fed her toddler multiple kitkats at 9 am. My own dear late grandpa in law (polish) sneaked dd1 an illicit spoonful of honey at about three months. I said nothing. Didn't need to. My HV mil dealt with him

Anatidae · 05/02/2017 21:57

Haha, yes Ds sleeps outside at nursery (Sweden) with all the other little ones, regardless of weather. It has to be very very cold, or windy for them to sleep indoors :)

It took some getting used to for me but he sleeps better outside than in.

museumum · 05/02/2017 22:01

Italian and Greek parents are always terrified their babies will get cold.

Nordic parents leave their kids outside when it's -10

Cultural assumptions are really strange.

mrschiefy · 06/02/2017 20:08

I took my first born out when he was 1 day old in December in the freezing fog ... got to the bottom of the hill and realised I had forgotten his hat ... thought someone would call social services .... noone did .... and he survived! I was given the advice of always dressing babies in an extra layer to whatever I was wearing ... neither of children feel the cold like I do ... I almost boiled them! They need fresh air and it is good to get out and have some exercise ... get that baby out there!

LittleBearPad · 06/02/2017 20:18

Excellent thread.

Congrats Op. They'll be fine.

JackandBump · 06/02/2017 20:23

Er, DH and I walked into town and had lunch when baby was a day and a half! Baby was wrapped up snug and very happy. This was my second, wouldn't have happened with my first. Physical recovery far quicker this time round!

SeriouslySomething · 06/02/2017 20:34

My MIL told me off for taking the baby out too much today. She is nearly 7 weeks old.
Her words were 'as I have said to every one else, you take that baby out too much'
I did wonder if she was going to offer to do the school runs or food shopping or some how keep me sane while I sat at home all day with 3 children. Those offers didn't come

Toyslayer · 06/02/2017 20:49

Is everyone on this thread an idiot?
As the sun sets the air gets colder, keeping baby under the raincover will protect her from cold winds! But not from idiots ... sadly.

CaptainDaydream · 06/02/2017 21:03

my family is from Eastern Europe, we also have a breeze/draught that will kill on contact and is to be avoided at all cost
Unless baby was born at home it will already have been outside, wrap up and go out, fresh air is good.

BathshebaDarkstone · 06/02/2017 21:05

Wrap her up and take her out.

CaptainDaydream · 06/02/2017 21:15

Spuriouser

"when the baby is older and running around, a pathological fear that he will sweat, the sweat will cool, and he will catch the flu from the cold sweat."

my grandmothers are both horrified when my son (who gets very sweaty very quickly) runs around and I neither stop him from getting sweaty nor try to desperately dry him quickly. I'm such a bad mother. (Slightly off topic but they also freak out if I go outside with wet hair as this will give me instant brain damage)

I'm afraid the bare feet thing has stuck with me and I'm constantly on at my children to put their slippers on...

BathshebaDarkstone · 06/02/2017 21:25

I took DS2 4 days and DD 3 to Asda. It took 5 hours with all the feeds for DS2 and loo breaks for DD. DH actually came to look for us!

skincarejunkie · 06/02/2017 21:55

When I was in Zurich in minus 14, the locals did gave the rain covers on the shield little faces from the painfully cold air. As amusing as this has been seeing my 1year old's poor little crimson face made me wish I'd thought of it too! But OP is in Italy. Perhaps not as extreme? I'm geographically impaired so feel free to correct me.

Wheredidallthejaffacakesgo · 06/02/2017 21:57

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