I would let ppl know by sms also .. I'm not to sure about the note on the door idea.. I would think ppl will manners would call first to check if its a good time.. also I wouldn't stress about this to much atm as you may change your mind later on when bubs is here anyway...we stressed heaps before hand we did tell a couple of ppl before the birth that we would let them know when we were ready for visitors..glgl
We told people via sms that we would be in touch when we were ready for visitors and no one listened it ended up the midwives would say to them 'just a quick visit' and the person would come into me cranky as all get out and them I would have to listen to the crap about it and I would feel terrible. If I'd had my time over and its very hard when you are so excited, I wouldnt text anyone until the following day. Sounds rude but I never even got to establish feeding DD before people were on top of me! Needless to say we have major hurdles! Maybe you could say something before in the text or in person, that you need time to bond as a family and would like the space?? Or tell everyone you have just taken up that religion where no one sees the baby for 40 days As for a sign at home I would write 'Shhhh, we are all sleeping. Hope to catch up soon, please leave us a message and we will be in touch when we have settled a little'.
We made it perfectly clear to everyone that they could visit us as much as they wanted while in hospital but as soon as we got home we were having a 2wk ban from ANY visitors so we could get use to our new bub, rest and also get use to being a family! We did it with DD2 also and no one minded, they all understood! we also said that if we wanted we would go visiting! it worked out really well!
i had a HORRIBLE time in the first 2 weeks. we were completely overwhelmed with visitors every day. i was so upset cos i couldnt seem to get into a routine of feeding/sleeping etc cos there was always someone there. We ended up sending a sms or email or fb message etc to everyone we knew (that would visit) that we were holding off on visitors for 1 whole week. it worked! everyone was understanding. i even got less phone calls as they seemed to get that we needed a break. Good luck!!
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it ended up the midwives would say to them 'just a quick visit' and the person would come into me cranky as all get out and them I would have to listen to the crap about it and I would feel terrible. If I'd had my time over and its very hard when you are so excited, I wouldnt text anyone until the following day. Sounds rude but I never even got to establish feeding DD before people were on top of me! Needless to say we have major hurdles! Maybe you could say something before in the text or in person, that you need time to bond as a family and would like the space?? Or tell everyone you have just taken up that religion where no one sees the baby for 40 days
As for a sign at home I would write 'Shhhh, we are all sleeping. Hope to catch up soon, please leave us a message and we will be in touch when we have settled a little'.
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