Going out/church

When did you take your twins out in public like church? My pedi says the minimum is 6 weeks but to have extreme caution with it being flu season. Im thinking of returning to church after Christmas which would be 8-9 weeks and just going to Wednesday nights to get back into the swing of things. I'll go back to Sunday's probably closer to Jan/feb. Just curious when you started really going out again?

 

We went at about the 4-5 week mark, I think. Keep in mind that that made it June/July - not cold and flu season at all. We also have a lot of help when we go to church.

With my ODD, we waited a bit longer to go because she was born in February the year H1N1 made a big splash.

 

About 5 weeks. But I also kept them covered and didn't let all the little old ladies (or anyone else) touch them for a few more weeks, and even longer for Sabrina because she was tiny and struggling to put on weight.

 

We went to church for the first time when my kids were around 3.5 weeks old. But, they were born at 37 weeks, no NICU time, etc. It was also the middle of the H1N1 panic in late December, so we made sure to keep them with us, and were VERY limited in who could touch them. We didn't actually put them in the nursery until after Easter, when they were about 3 months old.

 

We took them around 6 weeks. As others have said, we shielded them from being touched much; we would come a bit late and sit in the separate nursery and take them with us for communion and then leave.

 

I took mine to the synagogue for the first time at 7 weeks because there was a Jewish holiday. I think I really didn't get back into the swing of things for a few weeks after that. I'm not a neurotic person in general, so I really didn't care who held them as long as that person wasn't sick, but keep in mind I live in SoFL and there is no real cold/flu 'season' here, so I don't have that worry.

 

We kept the girls in for 8 weeks and still got rsv it was horrible. My cousin took his preemie daughter (35 weeks) out the day they got her home from the nicu after a week stay :umm:

 

My boys are premies so that's part of my concern too. I'm going to wait until after the new year. One nice thing is they are getting the rsv vaccine since they're premies. Not to say I can parade them around but that we've got a little extra protection.

 

My girls didn't qualify for the shots even with Jess being so tiny!

 

I think the only reason we did was because I have five other children with four of them being five and under. They are SO expensive. If the insurance didn't cover it there would be no way for us to get them.

 

My girls were born on New Years Eve and we weren't allowed to take the out until their pedi gave the okay. I think it ended up being Feb or March before he allowed it.

 

The boys were early and born during RSV/Flu season and we go to a large church. They were born in January and we didn't take them til April.

 

We started taking them to church maybe 3 weeks or so after their birth, but it was summer and they were full-term babies. Our church has a few separate benches in the back (in the main church, just a bit separate) and we sat there and were pretty strict about no touching etc.; we did take them up front with us for the blessing by the priest during communion.

 

People we know who had preemies in the winter (singletons or twins) tended to keep them home all winter until RSV season was over. I don't know how premature yours were but I think the risk is higher for preemies. RSV is bad for full-term newborns let alone preemies--I have two friends who had full-term babies both over 40 weeks last year in November and both babies ended up in the hospital by Christmas with RSV for several days.

Glad you are able to get the shots and I do think it's wise to wait until January!

 

they were born Jan 16th. We went to church the first time April 1st. they qualified for the shot.

We did visited neighbors and family long before that.

 

There was just a report on the news that the area has widespread flu already so even more reason for me to stay home.

 

Aww good luck!!