Meeting newborn... advice re COVID19

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We’re travelling to meet our new grandchild tomorrow. We’ll stay in a hotel overnight. Meeting at parents house. Baby is 6 days old.

Can anyone advise re. holding/wearing masks/hand gels etc? What’s the best thing to do for safety?

I think you go with whatever the parents are allowing.

Ask parents what they’d prefer. We let grandparents meet our newborn recently and we just asked that they washed their hands as we knew they had self isolated prior to the visit.

I would be over prepared if I was in your position , go to the house with a face mask , clearly use hand gel and don't ask to hold the baby . That way the parents can let you know how they want it to go without feeling awkward about it !
If they offer up baby for cuddles then fantastic but you wouldn't want them to feel pressured into it if they don't feel 100% comfortable yet .

Yes, we have a supply of masks in the car/handbag and hand gel. DH said “they won’t expect us to sit there in masks” but even though we’ve “followed the rules” I’ll be taking a mask and sitting at a distance.

Depends what you have been doing? Relatives meeting our new baby a few weeks ago isolated before seeing us and we therefore let them have cuddles and no mask wearing. If they hadn’t isolated we wouldn’t have let them hold the baby, but would have been fine with them being in the house at 2m distance.