A Diner? At three weeks?

So DH and I ventured out for dinner tonight with Lil Miss Abby and of course people were looking. One lady asks how old she was and when I said "3 weeks" she said:

"You took her to a diner at 3 weeks? What about all the diseases? When I had kids, we didn't take them out til they were 3 years old!!!"

I'm thinking "Gee lady, the infant mortality rate was WAY high back then, Polio was an issue and Germany was a super power.

Then I asked the waitress to bring me a burger topped with tuberculosis and small pox with a side of rubella WELL DONE!!!!!

Someone call the authorities. I am unfit to raise a child.

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I had both my kids out and about with in a week of being home. It was the better option to a mommy with cabin fever!

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Why do people say stuff like that??

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I waited awhile before I took him into establishments, but on our walks I always use to lie about his age!

Older gals can be so nasty!

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We had Christopher at Jose Tejas for some margs when he was 3 weeks old. I kid you not.

People are holes.

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I HATE PEOPLE! Yeah you are horrible parents!!

So that women's poor kids never saw the light of day until age 3???

My mom used to get harrassed in church so you may want to stay out of there Leslie These old nasty women used to tell her to "keep her babies at home" BUT she used to fire right back at them

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I just want to say good for you!! I hope you enjoyed your dinner out. I had my kids out from day 1. Let me tell you how much easier it is when they are little

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Posted by beautyq115

I HATE PEOPLE! Yeah you are horrible parents!!

So that women's poor kids never saw the light of day until age 3???

My mom used to get harrassed in church so you may want to stay out of there Leslie These old nasty women used to tell her to "keep her babies at home" BUT she used to fire right back at them

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At the peds recommendation and because I was healing from delivery we stayed indoors for the first 2 weeks except for the occasional walk around the block. After that pretty much nothing except holding her face up to someone with a hacking cough was off limits.

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I wish people would just shut it! Why are new moms expected to be house bound with a newborn?

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Some people are ridiculous! Glad you got out and enjoyed dinner with your DH and DD.

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Welcome to the joys of judgmental motherhood!

P.S. I took Alex out at that age too. In fact, I have a good friend who, on her way home from the hospital, stopped at a diner with her newborn because they were ravenous! And the kid is just fine now

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Thats just ridiculous. People stink adn need to mind their own business. You are the mommy and are doing what you feel is right.

I took my DD to the mall at 3 weeks.
There was no way that i could have stayed couped up in the house.

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I took Andrew out even before 3 weeks. So people should just keep their mouth shut

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They would have called CPS on me then. We went to a restaraunt when he was under 2 weeks.

I would have said, "Then get away with whatever nasty diseases you think you may have!"

Trust me, I say these things!!!!

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We may very well have been the youngest family in there as it was on the tail end of the timing of an early bird special and the snowbirds haven't migrated to Florida for the winter yet. Good grief, all of the yenta's were all up in my biznis!!! One actually said "Did you just come from the hospital?" I wanted to say "Yeah, do you mind, checking my scar and taking out my foley? I'd appreciate that!!!"

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Every parents do what they feel comfortable with.

I don't think addressing you in the diner was appropriate. I think you already had made an informed decision. It's nobody's business but yours.

We did not take DS out in indoor public places until he was 8 weeks because of the risks. We DID go out every day with him. Just not in malls and restaurants.

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we personally waited about a month or so before putting them into the mainstream

but that was us - lady should have minded her own business

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My mom took my little brother to disney world when he was 8 days old

He was kid number 7..so ya know...

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why can't people just keep their pie holes shut!

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People need to mind their business!!!

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