> try to avoid having too many visitors in the hospital. you need to sleep or at least rest instead. we had both our families visiting the first time and it was so much worse than covid-era visitation
I'd be a little more specific and suggest limiting to one visitor at a time. With two visitors, it was easy to have each parent occupied by a visitor and nobody notice the sleeping baby starting to stir and then end up with a difficult to console baby, instead of intervening earlier and keeping more calm. At least that was my experience. Newborn is not the stage to let the kiddo figure everything out themselves ;)
I'd be a little more specific and suggest limiting to one visitor at a time. With two visitors, it was easy to have each parent occupied by a visitor and nobody notice the sleeping baby starting to stir and then end up with a difficult to console baby, instead of intervening earlier and keeping more calm. At least that was my experience. Newborn is not the stage to let the kiddo figure everything out themselves ;)