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I only had 6 weeks, but we tried to go out a lot. It helped that it was FL. We brought her to DH's restaurant (at a resort) whens he was a week and a few days old and someone yelled at us! I was like cool it lady, she's staying in her carrier, I'm not letting people touch her. My mom was great about making us get out and about. I think it helps although my lady parts area got really sore walking around a lot, that was my only complaint.

We go out every day. Some days it was just a walk, other days it was to the mall or visiting friends. Even when it was -30C. I had to get out or I would have lost my mind.

Pretty much every day since she was 2 days old. She came unexpectedly and we were really low on groceries. My husband couldn't take off any time for the first week, so at 2 days old she was out grocery shopping with me. We at least get out for a walk every day. My husband was on holidays last week so I left her with him for the walk for a few days as it was crazy icy here. I noticed it was a lot harder to get her to sleep at night. As soon as he went back to work and she was out with me during the day, she's back to bed early now.

I mean we don't do a lot of super fun things, but we get out.

Had to, or else I would have LOST MY MIND. It took me about three weeks to get in the groove of taking them both out at the same time by myself, but then we would go to the mall to walk a lot- they were born two days before Thanksgiving, so it was still a bit cold and wet to go outside on long walks.

For the first 3 months or so, I made Wednesdays my 'going out' days - I forced myself to go somewhere just to get out of the house.
Now that she's 6.5 months, we go out probably 3 times a week or so.

Oh yes at least once a day!

I didn't go out much the first month, but after that we went out 4-5 times a week for the rest of my 4 months off. This was from July-mid November.

Yes, a lot! The kid went shopping with us before he was a week old (but I freaked out halfway and made DH go home because I didn't know it's normal for babies to fall asleep the second they get outside). And he went to his first restaurant at two months. But once my leave ended, we had a really tough child care situation and didn't go out at all for months.

I could not stand being cooped up at home, I'd go nuts. We brought my daughter home and took her to the dog park the next day. Then we just went about our lives, shopping and eating out and such. As much as we had the energy for. But I can't imagine just sitting at home staring at the baby.

LO is 3 weeks and we have already gone out a ton. He had multiple ped appts in the first week. After that, I had to take him with me to run errands (DH can't do baby care solo). I also take him to DH's physical therapy appointments twice a week. I don't have any family nearby to babysit. Luckily he is fine once he has his initial car seat freakout. He normally sleeps through everything unless we're out long enough that he needs a feeding.

We went out tons. I'm in canada and mat leave here is a year so I definitely had to find some constructive things to do. We did baby groups several times a week, a mom and baby yoga class, stroller fit and lots of trips to zoos and parks with the moms I met in baby group. Also tried to do our daily errands but grocery shopping would usually be done with DH because it was easier with 2. I would do quick shops for a few items but our big shops were tough alone.