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For Lo #1 is was like a month and a half! With lo#2 it was like two weeks and it was to the grocery store!

The day we brought him home we all went out together. I didn't go out alone for 2 weeks because I couldn't drive post c-section.

2-3 days. We had ppl over for dinner the night I got home from the hospital. The next day, my mom and I went for a pedicure (to be fair, there is a nail salon right below my condo on street level) and that first weekend, I went for a movie while my mom was still there and could babysit.

I also went grocery shopping without LO a lot...she didn't really go out and about for almost a month, because my Ped is south Asian (and so is my husband) and they are both very against babies going in public before 1 month.

All these trips, even the movie were 2 hours or less. The movie heater is 1 block from my house, so I just walked over right as it was starting and right home afterward.

It was the last movie I saw for almost a year, so I was glad I did it! I would go to the appt.

I think I came across a receipt from when I went to Target alone around a week PP. There were definitely painkillers involved, but I also had a pretty uncomplicated birth. With LO, we went to the farmers market on the weekend for the first few months.

I went out to Target 4 days PP by myself. Driving definitely felt different and it took me a second to get accustomed to it but other than that, I was fine. I was a bit slower but no pain. I had a very uncomplicated (but long) labor.

With my first I went to the store the day I was released and almost passed out in the store waiting for my prescriptions. I wasn't supposed to walk around much after having her since I tore a blood vessel.

With my second I waited two weeks. Much better.

Three weeks ish? Got a pedicure with my girl friends.

maybe 2 weeks? Just to the grocery store so I was back in time to nurse again.

About a week after - my MIL came over and my husband and I had a day date at the movies

I left to pick up a prescription the day after we got home. I went to an ob appt at three weeks.

Around a month, I think... I went to Kohl's to buy come new clothes and left LO with my husband. I'm really glad I did that as soon as I did. I think it made it easier in the long run that I first left her while she was still so easy (eat, sleep, poop)!

When you're breastfeeding it's really hard to leave the house for any sizeable amt of time alone unless you have a good breastmilk stash. I can't even remember when I went out by myself without baby - I honestly think it was months later when I finally went to get a pedicure. With baby, I did leave the house to go to Target in the second week (with help from my mom since I couldn't drive post c-section). Going with baby is much easier!

@bluestriped bee: WITH the baby we went out to dinner the day after we came home from the hospital. I cannot stress enough to new moms how much it makes a difference to get out of the house and do something normal! They are sooo tired at that point (and love the ambient noise of restaurants) that you may as well get out while you still can without having to pay for a baby-sitter! He's 11 weeks old tomorrow and we just went out to dinner tonight with him in the car seat. I know our days are numbered in which we can do this, and we've thoroughly enjoyed many meals out so far .

Without the baby I went to Target when we'd been home for 2 days? My mom had to drive me because of the C-section, but I left him with my husband and dad. The first time I drove myself and took the baby was 10 days PP to a breastfeeding support group. A few days later I went to my two-week PP incision check with my OB, and then went to the grocery store, too. Again, anything that felt "normal" to me from my pre-baby life when so much was new and crazy in those first few weeks was very helpful.

Several weeks!? I think I went for a massage at 6 or 8 weeks PP. I remember being so scared of wetting the table with my leaky boobs!

A couple days. I can't remember exactly with my first. But I do remember that after my second, I went black friday shopping 3 days after she was born.

I don't quite remember with my first. Definitely at 12weeks when I went to work.

With #2 at a week I left her with DH to go on an outing with my mom and LO1.

I think around a week for us! Wishing you an amazing FET today ! Come on BFP!

Within a few days...My LO had to be readmitted to the hospital 4 days PP due to really high bilirubin. I popped out while my husband was with her to run to target to get some big panties/boyshorts lol. My PP bleeding was a surprise to me, I hadn't realized how big of pads you need and I had loved those big hospital panties for holding the ginormous pads. So while DD1 was in the hospital, I had to go out and get big panties and more big ol' pads:)

I didn't tear or get an episiotomy - I just had tons of perennial massage during my lengthy labor and only got minor internal scrapes - so I pretty much felt fine as soon as my epidural wore off and I could stand again. Just needed some big panties, lol. And of course urinating was only done with the bottle because that burned. But was fine for any other physical activity.

We were in the nicu for a week. When we got home I was so stir crazy, I needed to get out so I went to the grocery store , lol. Dh stayed home with the baby.

I went out 5 days after. I went to the store with my mom. It was fine but it drained me. I was tired and achy when I got home. We were there for probably 30-45 mins.