A question about babies

• friendfromlowry

  I've been fortunate to not have any kids yet, so my expertise of taking care of babies is low. But I always thought that you try to minimize where you take a newborn, for their own protection. I guess I heard somewhere they should spend the first few weeks at home. With that said, I'm friends with a girl on Facebook who had a baby boy probably not even two weeks ago. Tonight she uploaded a picture of them at Dave and Busters. Is it smart to take such young newborns out in public like that???
  
  Question #2 - where do babies come from?
• Sonofanump

  Outside air is better than restricted inside air.
• RedRider1

  

  I'd almost bet that's her first kid and she hasn't come to grips with the reality of the fact that your life changes after having children and your life has to slow down a bit.
  
  2 weeks is a little young. I'd be nervous about taking one that little to the grocery store or anywhere public for that matter.
  
  To each their own I guess. At that age, they'll sleep through it, but probably should be home.
  
  I'd be more apt to keep that kid home & let him adjust to his surroundings. Everything is new to babies that young and the simpler you can make their life the better.
  
  Get a sitter of you want to get out when the kid is a little older, but don't ask someone to watch a kid that little. That's mom & baby bonding time.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I believe newborns need to be home for at least the first month.
  
  But what do I know? I have raised seven healthy kids.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Babies come from the storck to answer question #2.
• chicago510

  

  Dave and Busters at 2 weeks old is germ and sensory overload. Not that the kid is going to remember it, but there is a reason that kids that age sleep 18 hours a day. Also, their immune systems are almost non-existant, so exposing them to the filth of a D&B is ridiculous.
  
  Also, who has time to live it up with a newborn? Granted I've never had one, but everything points to them needing round the clock care.
• sleeper

  

  THE4RINGZ;1193715 wrote:I believe newborns need to be home for at least the first month.
  
  But what do I know? I have raised seven healthy kids.

  
• RedRider1

  

  chicago510;1193718 wrote:Also, who has time to live it up with a newborn? Granted I've never had one, but everything points to them needing round the clock care.

  Pretty much this. We have a 1 month old right now (our 3rd). Sleep is at a premium and it's constant attention. She should be at home taking care of herself & baby.
  
  Babies change who you need to be. An exciting night in babies first month should be watching a movie uninterrupted.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  sleeper;1193719 wrote:

  
  LOL.
  
  We adopted a couple of kids.
• thePITman

  

  I "attended" my first slow-pitch softball game when I was 2 days old, and I turned out alright.
• Speedofsand

  

  I was 3 weeks old at my first car race. I don't remember who won. (Columbus Motor Speedway)
• McFly1955

  

  If possible, I would say the first month or so should be spent pretty much at home for the newborn. I think our doc also told us this wouldn't be a bad idea. A quick trip to the grocery store, visiting a family member, probably not a big deal.
  
  I wouldn't be taking our newborn to a restaurant, sports game, etc. until at at least a month if avoidable.
• GoChiefs

  

  Don't take them out too early. Had a cousin that almost died because she got a serious infection due to the fact that she was out and her immune system wasn't really developed yet.
• Anna-Town

  The kid is more protected immunologically at 2 weeks than he is a 4 weeks based on the half life of the immunoglobulins he receives from mom while in utero vs through breast milk or on his own.
  
  Take him out and let him live life.
• Speedofsand

  

  wasn't too early, it was evening.
• SnotBubbles

  

  Anna-Town;1193755 wrote:The kid is more protected immunologically at 2 weeks than he is a 4 weeks based on the half life of the immunoglobulins he receives from mom while in utero vs through breast milk or on his own.
  
  Take him out and let him live life.

  
  This is true.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Babies need direct sunlight, without sunscreen, for at least two hours per day.
  
  Babies need exercise on a daily basis. Take them for a jog.
  
  Babies need hot baths, preferably the hottest your tap will go.
  
  Babies need to learn how to swim as early as possible, so it's OK to leave them unattended in the bath.
  
  Babies eat tortilla chips.
• Sonofanump

  It is the contact with other humans that is dangerous, not the outside air.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Sonofanump;1193838 wrote:It is the contact with other humans that is dangerous, not the outside air.

  It is healthy for babies to be passed around. Take the baby to a crowded place and show him/her off by letting everyone hold the baby.
• Sonofanump

  ernest_t_bass;1193840 wrote:It is healthy for babies to be passed around. Take the baby to a crowded place and show him/her off by letting everyone hold the baby.

  Yeah, I suppose old ladies would not be sick or anything like that.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Sonofanump;1193841 wrote:Yeah, I suppose old ladies would not be sick or anything like that.

  Babies like hospitals, too. And Africa.
• hasbeen

  

  friendfromlowry;1193705 wrote:
  Question #2 - where do babies come from?

  
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  ^ ^ ^ That sure has been sanitized. And no woman is that calm at the moment of delivery without heavy drugs.
  
  At two weeks, a baby is still coasting on Mom's antibodies, and if Mom is breast-feeding, the kid's immune system is probably better than yours. It's the three- and four-year-olds that are the walking germ factories - particularly if they've not spent a lot of time around other children.
  
  Having raised three of them, I can only say that babies are a lot more durable and adaptable that most people think - if you keep 'em warm, dry, fed, cuddled, and within earshot of Mom and Dad, they'll usually be just fine. We took our first-born on a cross-country airplane trip at three weeks without any problems at all (other than the old bat across the aisle that freaked out when Lady D'Friskies served lunch for the kid at 33,000 feet over Omaha).
• Sonofanump

  pnhasbeen;1193966 wrote:

  NSFW reported.
• dlazz

  Babies suck.