How to avoid people wanting to carry and kiss baby

Ill be going to a relative’s wedding this comming weekend and its giving me anxiety. Esp the old folks who anyhow want to carry and kiss our baby!! My baby is 3 months old, and just recovered from covid(very traumatic experience, was even hospitalised). I want to avoid people wanting to carry my baby or even kiss my baby. I hate the idea of people passing around my baby, i dont even care if youre a relative. I honestly dont even like if my mil carry the baby at events cause shell go around walk around or people will anyhow come to her and touch touch baby. And yes me and husband agreed on using baby carrier, both konny for myself and ergo for my husband. However i feel bad for baby to be in a carrier for the whole day. And sometimes even when using carrier for few hours, can see his legs got marks from the carrier. And sometimes he would fuss when in carrier. Any other way to avoid them ? Cause some people just dont understand instruction and dont respect the mother and think we’re obnoxious. Cause recently we went to a family gathering, which i dragged the most, and some people anyhow come and kissed my baby! #firsttimemom

Vô danh

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I will do baby carrier for the first few hours if baby can stay inside for that that long. during those few hours, I will keep reminding people "please dont touch baby, he just recovered from covid and still recovering from the side effects. his lungs still weak, doctor advised us to not let people carry, touch, kiss him. so need to be very careful not to catch other virus or illness" (whether it is a lie or not, people need to hear something very serious for them to behave; especially if you pull in the "doctor's advice") most importantly, know that you are doing your best to protect your baby, whatever other people think or feel about you not letting them carry/touch your baby is their own immature emotional issues to deal with. you deal with caring for your baby, that is priority. if they are not happy then let them be unhappy. if they think you are unreasonable, let them think that way. you yourself know best that it is the right thing to do for your baby and yourself 🙏 the anxiety of my baby getting sick and nothing I can do to help ease the illness is more stressful than me being disliked by relatives.

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