Kissing grandchildren?

No kissing the babies, no sleeping them on theor tummies, no cot bumpers, no forward facing car seats and definitely no baby yoga

Please don't Google baby yoga, there are some seriously bonkers people out there and we will all just get angry again

if anyone needs to kiss anything on a baby.
And I know deep breath there's a need, kiss their feet. Honestly, nothing better than baby feet and toes.
And the safest!

I used to love puzzling my girls fluffy little head, when she was fresh out the bath.

Yes, agreed, kissing baby's precious feet or the top of her head is more than enough, but if the parents prefer us not to, that's fine too.
With our other GCs (our daughter's children) there is no issue other than the common sense washing hands and keeping away if we are sick. Thank goodness for that!
And they are all thriving!!

Just give a deep breath for overly anxious first time parents. The advice is terrifying now, along with covid!

You just don't image loving anything as much as your child and the thought of anything happening to them is just. Horrible.

At the end of the day, when they are older, they all eat a McDonalds and survive.

Philippa60, You are wise taking on gransnet guidance, not asking your son for anything he doesn't approve.

A friend cajoled, whinged, asked questions, gave advice.

That way leads to no contact. Well done you avoiding issues.

How anyone survives father eating the muck that is sold as food by McDonalds is beyond me. Now that’s something I would put a ban on if I was the parent of a young child again.

Give it a few years and there'll be a whole new raft of rules. I remember the health visitor giving me hell because my first baby preferred to sleep on his back 'he'll vomit and choke to death'!!! OMG the relief when second son preferred to sleep on his tummy, 'but stop that thumb sucking, give him a dummy instead' (he was born with a callous on his thumb from in utero thumb sucking!)....... babies 3 and 4 also bucked the rules current at their births. All have survived into adulthood, and for some into parenthood.
Now I'm not knocking best practice being advocated in line with current thinking, but it's the absolutism that I object to. As can clearly be seen the advice does sometimes do a 180 degree turnaround. Do 'the authorities' ever apologise for their misguided previous 'advice'? Not in my experience.

PoppyBlue

Just give a deep breath for overly anxious first time parents. The advice is terrifying now, along with covid!

You just don't image loving anything as much as your child and the thought of anything happening to them is just. Horrible.

At the end of the day, when they are older, they all eat a McDonalds and survive.

Only 2 of my 5 have ever eaten a McDonald's, apparently.
I've never had one - and nor has my husband.
Nothing is absolute Poppy!

For me, it's a pretty simple equation.

Baby gets little to no benefit from being kissed by anyone but parents.

However, the negatives from being kissed are well documented, in terms of spreading viruses and bacteria.

Ergo, no kissing seems completely reasonable to me.

None of the grandparents have had newborns during a pandemic (or, very few are having grandchildren while still having babies themselves.) Rules have changed, and will continue to do so as variants spread and delightful things like Monkey Pox are added into the mix.

No kiss from anyone is worth an infant's health being at risk.

I'm not into kissing babies - or even holding them, to be honest, unless they were one of my own (or my grandchild). Puppies on the other hand...
But on a serious note, if that's what the parents have stipulated, then you've got to abide by their rules. However, you can't wrap a child up in cotton wool, and has been very reasonably stated elsewhere on here, children need to be exposed to germs etc in order to develop their immune systems. As I commented earlier, science and common sense go a long way...