Hospital visitors

[secondbaby2]

Hi all,
I’m having my second baby. With my first baby I got sooooo many visitors that I hardly had any alone time with my baby. Did anyone else have this problem? Does anyone have any tips on managing visitors?

Hi..congratulations!

I have a 4 month old baby and we had so so so many visitors it was horrendous.

We only had parents in the hospital but after we got home I felt like I couldn't say no to people. If I have another that will change!!

Just go with what you're comfortable with at the time and don't be scared to hurt peoples feelings. It's about what's best for you and your gorgeous new baby x

39 weeks today.
We are having a ban on hospital visitors and then only parents when we are home for for the first week. It's hard to stick to these convictions when you're sleep deprived and hormonal though but I've said to my partner he needs to be my advocate and not allow anyone to pash the threshold for 7 days!

Thanks so much.

Great advice.

we had ban on any visitors until i was ready (ended up being 1 week). i was a mess in hospital so pleased we'd managed expectations early

I was only in hospital for 12 hours having no2 so we had no visitors. They were all waiting in my house when I got home.

They were fantastic tho. Made me coffee, cuddled the baby and went home.

Urgh, yes I am 4 weeks in and have had sooo many visitors. All lovely and considerate and not over bearing and all helpful and made their own cup of tea etc. But its too much. No advice I am afraid, as everyone is well meaning x

Thanks everyone for sharing your stories. Good to know I’m not the only one. My parents are divorced and don’t get on.....so the other thing will be who see’s the baby first......So looking forward to meeting my new little one though.

I found it easier to tell people to come to visit me in hospital during visiting times, that way I didn't have to have them at my house and hosting them,