Afterbirth

My fiancé and I have talked about us wanting alone time with our baby when she’s finally born. I’m almost 38 weeks pregnant with our first child. We talked to my doctor and she even said that for the first 6 hours of a child’s birth it’s best to not have everyone else hold the baby. That the baby should mostly be skin to skin with mom or even dad. That way baby gets used to everything around them. Such as temperature and what not.

Thing is we know everyone wants to see the baby right after she’s born and they’re going to want to hold her. We don’t want to be rude. But how do I tell them that’s not what we want. We decided to just let his sister with her kids and my mom, sister and grandma come in the beginning. But we don’t want them to ask to hold baby, and us say no.

I’m not sure what to do anymore.

Any advice or stories of how you went about it would really help.

Sorry for the long post.

Thanks