Survived first trip out of the house yay!

[Bernies81]

So today my sis out with her 6 day old baby for the first time - PHEW brought back memories of my own, gosh that was a mission!

Felt quite good to show the world my brand new baby... but I was so sure people could see from miles away I was a brand new, clueless Mum. EEEKS! I made it as far as our local coffee shop which is at the end of our road.... and had some....WATER LOL

What was your first trip out?

Local coffee shop accompanied by my mum. In her own inimitable way, she managed to ruin the triumph by pointing out the my shirt had become unbuttoned over my unruly jelly belly and that I looked a mess. It was very cold and dd was in a cosy suit that seemed a thousand sizes too large. She looked like an immense cuddly starfish with a human face.

My first meal out without dd ended up with leaky boobs and a quick taxi home!!

After being stuck in hospital for a week after having ds our first trip out was to Asda to get a food shop in. Not thrilling, but the next day we went to a cafe and a walk through the park which was lovely.

we walked to the naice farm shop about 10 - 15 mins from home about 3 or 4 days pp. it was terrifying. there were cars, pigeons. we got there and i sat in the cafe with the baby opening congratulation cards and crying (I did not have a traumatic birth i just had a lot of Feelings that week) whilst my bf returned to the house to get the car

Mine was on day 5 (only got home day 3) and we walked the mile into town and had lunch and a couple of glasses of fizz in the pub. Seem to remember DS slept the whole time.

With dc1 it was just a short walk with the pram and summer so easy enough. Dc2 a few days old and still in hospital but ordered to get us both out for a 20 min walk, it was minus 15 celcius, but the fresh air was nice.

Asda on the way back from hospital!!!

On my own; to a "pram walk" group run by the health visitor, that month they met at the top of my village. It was pouring with rain and I'd struggled to get my Pram rain over on. When I got there, there was another lady with a newborn and the same pram, also struggling to get it on so I showed her how. That's how friends are made.

Haha leaky boobs and showing your jelly belly, got to love it!
Love what you say about how friends are made - I made a few good friends locally just by pure chance of helping each other out in tricky situations.

Haha my first trip out of the house with second baby was a lot more adventurous, she was just born before Xmas and I needed to buy some more pressies (but left it too late for online ordering) so off we went to the nearest department store! She's always been good when taking her out shopping, even 3.5 years later now! Must be due to having introduced her early LOL.

Having said that I was more adventurous on my first trip out of the house; my first whole day on my own with both kiddies were terrifying, more so than the first day on my own with my eldest!

This made me smile! I came home midday and as a family went to meet my mum who came for a quick visit. The next day I had a trip to the GP for mastitis :(

My son was 4 days old when we first took him out. Just took him out in the pram for a walk to test it out lol.

However made it to the end of the road and he screamed so went back again haha. It gets easier! You'll soon be leaving the house like a pro without giving it second thought. If I knew I was going out early in the morning, I used to get his bag ready the night before and then all I had to remember was a bottle x

Seems so funny now but literally walked 10 mins to the Costa in the village which seemed like such a mission. I think we took longer preparing to go than we actually spent there. We slurped down our coffees at top speed and scarpered sharpish when DD started wailing. So much more relaxed with DD2 that I can't even remember what we did. It is easier with a second child and necessary for sanity with 2.5 yo at home but she's been much easier to take places down to the fact that she was actually one of those sleepy newborns you hear about and not like DD1 who would sleep for max 30 minutes and wail on waking

My first trip out was back to the hospital cos DS had lost too much weight.

Second trip out was back to hospital because I went loopy a few days later (suspected post partum psychosis due to some scary hallucinations but turned out just to be a bout of anxiety)

Mostly now just a fuzzy memory thank goodness

Ours was yesterday! Baby was 9 days old - had quite a difficult birth so had holed up in bed to recover until then. DP had baby in a sling, we walked 20m to the corner shop and got ice creams. Then another 20m to the park. Then we lay on the grass for 15 minutes... then I was worn out so we came home. Ha ha!

Now I feel like i should have made a bigger deal out of the first outing. I'm fairly sure ours was going to the hospital to have my stitches checked . I do remember my first time out alone with DD though, she was 6 days and I went to meet a friend at Café Nero. I remember getting all panicked about the logistics of getting the pram out of the car and putting DD in the pram and it being a car park and someone might run us over. And then I worried about getting a ticket as I read a MN thread a couple of days prior where the OP had been shouted at for leaving the baby in the car to get a ticket and all the posters were saying its risky taking them through the car park. I just sat in the car for 10 mins not knowing what to do!

I think we first went out on day 5, we had moved into our new house on day 2 so I wanted a break from unpacking and furniture moving. We just went around a few of our local parks, we are lucky that the ones near us are absolutely beautiful and lovely to stroll around with the pram, dd slept the whole time. DP took a photo of us before we set off and I look HORRENDOUS wish we hadn't captured that part of the memory!

Ours was the day after we got home from hospital. It was a very exciting trip to Mothercare to buy a breast pump and formula - I'd phoned an NCT breastfeeding support person in the morning because DS wasn't latching on at all and she'd asked us to buy a pump before she came round later in the day. We missed the midwife while we were out and got told off (why they can't make an appointment I don't know).
I don't remember my first trip on my own.

I met a lady in TKMaxx one lunchtime with 2 primary schooo children and a tiny baby. I asked her how old the baby was. 5 hours!!!

I said something like "congratulations on being up and about so soon", and she said that it was nothing, the big ones needed clothes!

We took DS out on his first day home, just for coffee, and have done every day since - it just seemed important to get him out of the house even for a minute before we lost our nerve!