Mamas with older kids in DC/school

[mlee116]

Blame the crazy flu outbreak or my pp hormones, but I've been pretty anxious about taking DD (4 weeks) out & exposing her to germs.  DS goes to school a few days a week & DH has been doing drop offs/pick ups, partly because of the germ issue but also because it works out well with his schedule.  However, sometimes DH has meetings or errands and I don't want DS to have to stay late, so I want to pick him up.  

So how do you do drop offs/pick ups with baby in tow? Do you leave them in the car seat & carry it in? Wear them? Should I just let DH do all the drop offs/pick ups to avoid exposing her? 

[danisgossipgirl]

Realistically your baby is getting more exposure from the big kid in general than being brought in briefly. I bring the baby in the bucket when I do pickup. I hate taking her out and putting her back in the car seat when she's tiny, she always screams and I feel like I'm going to snap her arm off. Plus it's cold here.

[iaminigomontoya]

I just bring him in his car seat. The kids all surround him immediately and I just say, "it's okay to look but please don't touch." But honestly I don't really worry about it that much. His big bro already brings all their germs home and is constantly touching him/in his face. We're working on that but I think it's mostly just the reality of having more than one child.

[mlee116]

Y'all are right...If she's around DS then she's already being exposed to whatever he's being exposed to. Besides, I can't keep her in a bubble. I need to calm my crazy

[serunatu]

Just remember also that we need some exposure to germs in order to build up immunities!

[beckyrosen]

My son's school has a drive through pick up so I do that. The only issue is I have to get they're at least 20 minutes before school gets out or the line will be so long that it will take forever to get him, and LO trends to get fussy while we wait.

[neonsun419]

I bring LO in with me to pick up DS1 at daycare. I try to keep LO covered with a muslin blanket over the seat when we go in and when we're out in public to keep people out of his face. DH is also a teacher, so germs are just part of our life and we do lots of hand washing.

[beckyrosen]

Jan 20, 2015 21:21:49 GMT -5 Miss Killjoy said:

Jan 20, 2015 12:33:49 GMT -5 beckyrosen said:

My son's school has a drive through pick up so I do that. The only issue is I have to get they're at least 20 minutes before school gets out or the line will be so long that it will take forever to get him, and LO trends to get fussy while we wait.

Speaking as a teacher, this sounds terrible. Who manages that? I reeeeally hope the answer isn't teaching staff, 'cause man that would suck. Bus duty (AKA standing there and supervising kids walking from the front door to the buses) is bad enough.

I don't have older kids or anything yet, but agreed that taking the baby in for a short time would expose him/her way less than the older kid will in general, so just take the baby in the car seat.

Major props to @chase for intimating that she carries that thing one-handed, though, because the bucket seat + my over-ten-pound kid weigh a TON and I always two-hand that sucker. Can't imagine carrying that thing AND wrangling a preschooler/young child.

No, the teachers don't manage that, one of the proctor's will basically direct traffic there. It's the same in the morning for dropping off. I didn't use this when he was smaller, but he's in 6th grade now.

[rn536]

I leave him in the seat and carry him in. We have the car seat that snaps in and out of the base. I don't put the seat down at all when inside. Then I make DD purell her hands as soon as she gets in the car.

[meether]

I do drop off in the morning, and the assistants take dd1 out of the car and take her to her room. In the afternoon, if it's above 40*, they bring them down and we can park right where they're waiting. If it's too cold or I miss pick up, I take dd2 in the bucket seat. She's 10 weeks, so I feel much better about taking her out in general. I was very anxious before.