After giving birth did you all give yourself time to bond with newborn before having visitors?

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I am looking for feedback, please feel free to comment as well. I am 50/50 on the matter and it's a discussion you wanna have with your spouse but I know parents may have concerns about babie(s) being exposed to lots of people and germs so small. Also just giving themselves a few days-weeks to settle and bond at home.

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Im not worried about germs but i 100% believe in limiting.who is around for the first few weeks to spend time bonding as a family. Last baby most i did was let my MIL visit (her first grandbaby). It was perfect not to have anyone around the next few weeks except to drop food off

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We gave it one week before we let the people we were closest to (only 3 people) come visit. After two months, thats when we allowed others to visit. This time, we are doing the same.

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We had hospital visitors and home visitors with my first. This time I’m not doing hospital visits. I want time to rest and heal and to be with my baby.

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with my first, it was during covid, so the hospital didn’t allow anyone other than my husband and one other person. after we came home, we just kept it very limited and made sure everyone washed hands and didn’t come by while sick obviously. 
with my second he went straight to NICU for almost 3 months and they didn’t allow any visitors other than my husband and I. we did have a choice to bring in others, but they had to do paperwork, get a visitor tag, and get screened since covid was still around and it was in march, so still “sick season”  and it just took too long for all that, we did have my mom, my husbands mom and my sisters come see him but that was it. he was already 3m when he came home, but still didn’t just take him in public a lot until he was a little older.

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My first I didn’t have a choice as she was a Covid baby (born days into the “2 week to slow the curve” bullshit). I didn’t have visitors until she was almost 2 months old by no choice of my own. My mental health was trash. I’d spent all my pregnancy with people around me offering help and all of a sudden, I couldn’t pay people to be around me. My second I had visitors in the hospital, at home, took baby to others houses, to the store etc immediately. I had a much better postpartum experience with the physical help and support vs people staying away and letting us “bond” aka dying in the newborn trenches with no clue what we were doing and trying to figure out how to add a new person to our household. Bonding with our second was much easier because we actually got to bond. My mom came and helped clean the house so I could work on establishing breastfeeding and figuring out a routine, my MIL made us dinner so we didn’t need to think about it and could spend that time with our baby. We were really lucky.

After giving birth did you all give yourself time to bond with newborn before having visitors?

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