I know I've seen threads on this topic before, but can't find any of them to save my life.

So, my husband's cousin is having her baby within the next week. This will be her third child, she has two children under 4, but this is her first boy. We're so excited for them and I want to go and visit her after he's born. They live a distance away (not terribly far, but far enough that we're not able to go and see them often). When I asked her about visiting, she expressed that she was excited to meet our LO since they hadn't yet. That got me thinking...

D is 12 weeks. Is it okay if I take him to the maternity ward? Firstly, there's the whole germ-thing, but I don't know if I'm overreacting about that. We took him to the ER with us when he was about 9 weeks because I was having chest pains in the middle of the night, so no choice and I was a bit paranoid then. But are there restrictions with bringing children under a certain age to visit? I thought I'd read that somewhere but don't know if that's a hard-fast rule. I can always call the hospital to find out.

What do Bees think? I can always see if MIL wants to watch him, but she'll probably want to go with us (neither her nor my husband drive)