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

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Hi

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

I know, I read that! I just thought I'd make that clear!

What a fab thread. I was born and brought in the late 60's/70's in Singapore by enlightened parents. I ran around in next to nothing. When my mum and dad brought me 'home' to Wales both grandmothers were obsessed that I'd die by not wearing a vest (ugh), tights (wtf?), and slippers at all times in the house. Death was imminent if the above didn't happen.
47 years on I still won't wear a vest, am bear foot whenever I can be and am very much alive and well. And thank god my lovely mum never let anyone come near me with goose grease when I had a cold (probably for another thread!).

I loved taking my babies out and had no fear of fresh air, but there are a lot of comments on this thread along the lines of super women doing supermarket shops with multiple children plus newborn and school runs and I think it's a shame we don't have more of a culture of looking after new mums here. It sounds like lots of people just have to get on with it, hours after giving birth with no help looking after older children or recovering from labour. I am glad we don't fear a breeze or taking our children out after dusk, but it is a shame so many women are treated like giving birth is no excuse for being lazy and they must immediately continue to run the household singlehanded. I know lots of men don't necessarily get paternity leave and grandparents are often working too so I see that sometimes there is just no choice but new mums shouldn't have to do the food shop twenty minutes after having a baby! They should be being cosseted and brought drinks and being congratulated for being awesome for a good week or so, in my opinion, and it's a shame there seems to be an expectation that they aren't entitled to a bit of a rest, especially if they have older kids. I say this as someone who, with my first, was still in my lovely private ensuite room in the birth centre on Christmas Day a couple of days after having the baby and a woman came in during the early hours, had her fourth baby and then went home to cook Christmas dinner for twelve people. I couldn't fathom why on earth the other eleven people weren't going to cook the dinner for her!

Captain while I thank you for your sentiment, DS2 was DC4 and taking him and DD2 to Asda was no hardship. As well as to do the shopping and get treats not available at the time nearer to home, we went to the café afterwards for DD2's tea. We got home at, 9pm and I put DD2 to bed. I wouldn't have taken DH as he'd have got bored.He does all the housework and most of the cooking.