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Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital?? Yes. I am close to my family and they will be allowed to visit in the hospital since I will be there for 4 days lol. I know they will respect my wishes if I get tired and want to be alone.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home?? Probably the day or two after. Again, my family is very awesome about visiting but not over staying their welcome.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? I will just let them know that I am tired/hurting from the c-s and not ready yet.
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital?? Yes, I don't think we'll be able to keep them out! And we want them there.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home?? Truly I don't know as this is our first. I think I'll just post on fb to call or text if you want to visit...if I'm up for it, I'll tell them to come on over; if I'm not, I'll ask them to try again another day.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? Answered above, lol.
ha! what visitors - my inlaws are making it quite clear they don't want anything to do with us, and my family lives 1200 miles away. I don't really know anyone else.
I plan on going to the church picnic then end of September to show off the baby, but depending on when baby is born, we may be back at church by then.
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I enjoy visitors, as long as their stay is short . It's going to be important for us to bond as a family, and I'm not going to be up for entertaining other people for too long. I get that they want to come and meet the baby, and I'm all for that--I just think short visits are best. My friends and family are easy for me to tell to leave--if it's the in laws I'll make dh deal with it.
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Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital? Yes, I'm sure the in-laws and SIL with her girls will come see us.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home? It depends on how tired I am and how the baby's doing. I'd like to try to keep visitors away at first.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? I'll have DH handle telling his family and our friends that we're not ready yet and when it's okay.
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My dh is military and I have had all my oher babies overseas. This time I am home and near family so I am looking forward to visitors, having always been on my own before! My family are good about helping and I have no problem with them popping in and out even if I'm not up to much.
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital??
With my first two I was only in the birthing center a short while so I asked for NO visitors.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home??
After my first I had a food drop off only policy for two weeks! DH and I just curled up on bed with our new baby and found our feet and confidence to do the new mom and dad thing. It was wonderful. With the others I didn't care. We had an open door policy. We just had hand sanitizer all over so people got the idea LOL!!
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet?
We just told people right from the get go. It did piss some family members off (his side) but honestly they don't matter. We had to do what was best for us at the time!
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As long as baby is healthy at birth then we will welcome friends and family in immediately after (well I'd say within the hour)
At home they will be welcome anytime. If I get tired or baby gets hungry we just excuse me to a bedroom while everyone else visits amoung themselves
I don't forsee us not having people over but if it gets too much I'll just have Jay tell them I am too tired for visitors and let him entertain or have him ask them to come back later.
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital??
I've decided they can visit when we are settled in the post partem room. I think most will probably stay a short time but I want that first hour to be just us, and that's usually still in the delivery room
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home??
I don't think we will have many visitors here anyway. I know ppl will expect us to bring him to visit instead. I think visitors here will be fine after a cpl days but we won't be out much for a couple weeks besides school pickup/dropoff.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet?
I'll have dh handle it. He knows I cave easier. And we'll post a "please call or text to make sure we are up for company before dropping by" message on facebook.
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Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital?? I'm okay with it as long as their stay is very short. I only plan to be in the hospital for 24 hours; that's how long I was there last time around.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home?? I would really rather not have any visitors for at least the first week. I am sure people will still want to stop by. I will allow it but again for short periods of time for the first week or so.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? I too will leave that up to dh
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital?? planning a home birth so this is probably not something I have to think about but if I do end up at the hospital ppl are welcome to visit if I am up for it
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home?? Again has to do with whether i am up for it or not.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? I will just use the excuse of I am sore and baby and I are going to take a nap.
I assume there will be visitors at hospital, our stay is 4 days in total. But I doubt I will see my family, my sisters are notorious for not being reliable so I would be very surprised if I get more than a "Congratulations" text from them.
I haven't really thought of when we are home, everyone is pretty far away from us now so I sort of doubt we will be flooded with people lol.
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital?? Yes, but this time around, I want at least an hour after baby is born, for just myself, baby and my husband. Last time, Geoff's brother was outside a curtain holding Leah while I was getting cleaned up. That will not be happening this time. I did not breast feed last time, and this time, I want to give baby that "first chance" to at least try. So, my short response is, I want to be cleaned up and then people can see baby. Oh, and I want Leah to visit us first.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home?? Hopefully not the first night, but reality is, I have a four year old that I will want help with. Geoff will have to go back to work right away, so I will gladly let people come play with my daughter.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? I have told my family and his mom how I want that initial time to ourselves after he is born. But, I will be telling the nurses the same, and it's likely Geoff will just stay with me until we are ready for anyone to be in our room. OH, and last time, I just told people after I got home, that they could come over when I was ready, but to call first.
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital?? Depends on my delivery. If I have a VBAC(again) and baby is healthy then they usually release me at 24 hours. Most family wouldn't come out that quick. If I end up with a c-section then we will most likely have visitors the second day.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home?? Depends on who it is and how I'm feeling.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? I'm a very upfront person. If I'm not ready then I'll just simply tell them that.
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I dont want anyone up at the hospital when im in delivery or within 24 hrs for sure, and if i feel like it after that or change my mind I'll text them and let them know, but im not letting anyone even know im in labor to prevent that. I waited 9 months, they can wait. and if they show up unannoucned hubby has instructions to not let ANYONE on without asking first, and I don't mind saying no. I'm pretty much a loner as it is and my hypocondriac sister is not gonna be in there in the delivery room! i almost passed out the other day and she was saying my blood pressure was high my sugar was low and my pulse was low and it was all fine, shes mentall illl and makes everyone sick for drama. she lost custody of her kids bc she hurt them so they would go to the hospital for attention from the family. she will never leave the room with my child and will not live at my house even though she is next door I will lock it! lol im so paranoid right now about her having her hands on my baby girl and hurting her.
This is so funny you bring this up bc there are 4 of us from our small group having babies by Christmas and the first baby was just born this weekend, so me and one of the other girls were talking about this!
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital?? I guess it depends on the circumstances. With Keira we had wayyyy to many visitors at one time and I was purely exhausted. If it's like that this time around, then I likely won't wany any visitors. If I'm not, then visitors will be okay.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home?? No Preference.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? Just flat out tell them!
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital??
With my first two I was only in the birthing center a short while so I asked for NO visitors.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home??
After my first I had a food drop off only policy for two weeks! DH and I just curled up on bed with our new baby and found our feet and confidence to do the new mom and dad thing. It was wonderful. With the others I didn't care. We had an open door policy. We just had hand sanitizer all over so people got the idea LOL!!
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet?
We just told people right from the get go. It did piss some family members off (his side) but honestly they don't matter. We had to do what was best for us at the time!
Oh how I love this idea!!!
And well people are always there as soon as I get covered up from having the child they start pouring in.. I told dh that I'm not sure I want anyone to know when we go to the hospital lol. I plan on sending dh out for the girls and no one else first. Giving us time just us for a little while. Then allowing people to come in only if I'm ready. I'm sure I will have some pissed off impatient family in the waiting room... Oh well! However if I go into labor and dh is at work, he may or may not even make it to the actual birth. In that case it will be just me and the girls in there until he arrives. (which will be hopefully within minutes afterwards at the most!) But I expect that if that happens he will make it on time..
And I will tell dh I'm tired and ask him to be the mean one hehe! I know some hospitals set up a "safe word" of sorts, and you can ask the nurse for some "orange juice" or something and they will know that it means you have had enough and they will come back and ask them to leave saying that its time for you to rest, or time for them to check you or whatever.
I will prolly have some people stop by the hospital but I want to be asked to hold my new baby not just assume that because you showed up that it is automatically a pass to hold my baby! I would like to keep hospital visitors to a minimum.
My fiance's mom and sister are flying in from montana and ohio to be with us after the baby is born so I am a little worried about that but they are not staying at the house they will be in a hotel and one of us will prolly have to go and pick them up so that will be ok. As far as other company I would like to keep it down to a minimum since this is my first I want to spend the time learning how to care for my baby in peace!
I will prolly post on facebook to call or text if you would like to visit so that I can approve first and if I have problems after that I will make my Fiance deal with people lol I am a pushover.
Will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at the hospital?? Only my parents + brothers and DH's parents.
How soon will visitors be welcome to visit you and baby at home?? All the above, whenever they announce themselves and I agree. All the rest not too soon. Maybe after 2 weeks.
If needed, have you thought about how you will let people know that you are not ready for visitors yet? Well, I'm telling my family straight in the face if I feel like having visitors or not. And I will let my in-laws (we live with them) know that I do not want any visitors right after I get home with the baby. If they "trespass" I will just treat them like crap and keep them at the door. Period. I have no problem doing that if anyone is that rude to just invite themselves to come see MY baby. In the meantime, I am telling people that I will let them know when it's visiting season, but that it will definitely not be in the first week.
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How soon will you welcome visitors after baby's arrival?
. It's going to be important for us to bond as a family, and I'm not going to be up for entertaining other people for too long. I get that they want to come and meet the baby, and I'm all for that--I just think short visits are best. My friends and family are easy for me to tell to leave--if it's the in laws I'll make dh deal with it. 
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