Deep sigh… with the Duchess of Sussex on maternity leave for the summer and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their summer vacation, of course dumb stories are going to pop up. I tried to write about the one “younger royal” who is doing work (Harry making an appearance with Jane Goodall) and the fake royal news even invaded those comments. So, here we go: did Meghan refuse to introduce Private Archie to his first cousins, the Cambridge kids, for two months?
Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis met their cousin Archie for the first time as their fathers competed in a charity polo match, it has emerged. The Cambridge children didn’t meet baby Archie for the first two months of his life, royal correspondent Emily Andrews told Yahoo’s Royal Box, and were first introduced at the Billingbear Polo Club in Berkshire, earlier in July.
‘It was interesting actually, that polo match, because it was the first time that Charlotte and George had actually met Archie,’ she said. Photos of the day showed Prince George, 6, standing alongside new mother Meghan Markle, 37, while Prince Louis, 15 months, appeared to blow a kiss to baby Archie.
Emily Andrews explained: ‘They hadn’t actually met him for two months, so that polo match was lovely.’
While the charity polo match was the first time the Cambridge children met their cousin, Prince William and Kate are believed to have visited Frogmore Cottage eight days after he was born. She added: ‘Yes Kate and Will had been there to see Archie at Frogmore Cottage, but they hadn’t taken their children with them. So that was the moment at the polo match where all three of the Cambridge kids got to meet Archie.’
First of all, I don’t believe this – many people believe that Meghan and Harry actually brought Archie to Trooping the Colour in June, just about a month after Archie was born. Meghan would have needed to breastfeed, and so Archie was kept in the palace with a nanny or helper while the Sussexes did their thing at Trooping. The Cambridge kids were also at Trooping. Why wouldn’t they have met then? And even if they didn’t meet at Trooping and it really did take two months… so what? It’s not like the Sussexes and Cambridges are still neighbors, and the Cambridge kids have school schedules and all that. Besides, most little kids aren’t all that interested in babies anyway. Last thing: germs. Kids are germ laboratories.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
My own baby didn’t meet her cousin til she was two months old because that’s when she got her first shots. I believe this story and see nothing wrong with it.
Exactly. Both George and Charlotte are in school. Kids are petri dishes, and Archie wouldn’t be innoculated against the diseases George and Charlotte might be exposed to at school. It’s every parents’ choice; there’s no right or wrong.
Eh, we were told NO little kids before 6-8 wks. (min.) due to germs. That INCL. family members: adults only.
And I do think they “met” Archie at Trooping.
We were told “grandparents and godparents only”, as far as family and friends, and no public places, for the first four months… our daughter had a low birth weight, though, and spent time in the NICU.
We were also told to instruct people to touch her feet, not her face or hands.
Coming to say the same – my babes were kept away from kids until their first shots because kids are little Petri dishes!! They are full of germs. Lol. I know a lot of people are cool with taking day old babies out and about, but I always kept mine in. Meningitis is real, folks.
Mine was probably older than that. My brother’s oldest was already school aged and he and his wife are both teachers. I wasn’t taking a newborn on an airplane to go visit them . and their schedule meant that they weren’t coming to me until the summer school break.
When the younger ones were born, again their parents weren’t taking them on cross-country flights and we were the ones tied to a school schedule.
Everyone does what works for their family.
Exactly. We limited contact with little kids where we could with our first. Our second was already going to be around her big sister, of course.
Indeed, some friends had a baby last month and without being asked, we had someone watch our own kids so not bring them and their germs around a newborn.
Exactly. My cousin’s wife didn’t bring the baby to our aunts house until she was 6 months old.
Yes. This is ridiculous, they’re trying to make it more of a big deal than it is.
Just a question re trooping, why are you so certain Meghan is breastfeeding? She may have been unable to or chosen not to.
I wondered the same thing. Do we know definitely that Meghan is breastfeeding?
We obviously don’t know for sure, but she looks like she is. I feel weird saying more than that, LOL.
YES. for all this talk about honing in on her uterus, maybe we can also leave her boobs alone? If she wants to bf, fine. If she doesn’t, that’s fine too but it’s none of our business. She might have taken Archie without the need to bf. The preoccupation of her breasts that pops up in the comments is so fxcking weird. Like everything she does is explained away by “she’s breastfeeding!”. Super strange.
It’s none of anybody’s business whether she’s breastfeeding or not. What makes anyone think they have the right to know if someone is breastfeeding. It’s intrusive and extremely rude to speculate. I was flabbergasted when my daughter was asked pointed questions regarding her breastfeeding practices by an colleague, I so appalled I dropped by her workplace and became Mama Bear. Not all mothers can breastfeed or chose to breastfeed and I find the boob police simply crude and rude.
It’s Emily Andrew’s. Of course it’s nonsense. But it nearly fits into the negative Sussex schtick that she & The Scum like to profligate.
But, even if it’s true, there’s nothing unusual or strange about it. Newborns don’t need to be exposed to the germs that float around grammer schools.
And that’s totally fine.
To each their own. I know I wanted my nephews and nieces to meet my babies when I came home. I doubt Meghan kept the cousins at a distance. And if she did, that’s her choice. I won’t condemn her for it. And if Kate wanted to have her kids wait a while that’s fine too. Kids are germ factories.
Hey, maybe Meghan is anti-vaccine and that is why. Now I wonder if they pick up on that angle and spin that into Evil Sussex Duchess does not vaccinate!!!!!
Why even put that out into the internet universe that Meghan may be anti-vax??. Smdh.
Trying to show that the press will spin anything into something when it concerns Meghan. Were you unable to read between the lines?
@Seraphina your comment wasn’t that complicated hun so there were no “lines to read between.
But I guess mine’s was. Which is: even mentioning or suggesting that – whatever the intent – simply adds fuel to the bigoted racist hate storm aimed at Meghan. The internet is like a giant game of telephone. And putting something like that out there can take root in conspiracy threads. Which DO exist btw. There is an ENTIRE online group convinced that Meghan didn’t give birth to Archie. And it all started with one rumor based on a story much like this one.
I don’t think seraphina’s comment will rehash any more hate than what’s already been thrown out there. my advice is to take it easy on the hate filled tones coming from our comments. it’s ridiculous. you aren’t friends with them, let other people voice their opinions, even this one being a joke.
@KEEKS so your way of wagging your finger at tone-policing is to…tone police? Got it. Lol.
Seraphina
I would be really upset if my kids hadn’t met their new nephew but strangers/colleagues did. It’s just totally foreign to me that people are going out of their way to excuse this *if true.*
I think it’s completely reasonable — and in fact smart — to hold off on small children meeting a newborn for 1-2 months until the baby has its vaccinations. In fact, that seems to be standard practice where I’m from. I would not be offended if someone asked to wait to bring children around until the baby is a bit older and their immune system is stronger, for the safety of the baby. Little kids carry lots of germs that would be dangerous for a newborn.
You sound like a lot of effort. Hey, parents of a newborn, what about your obligations to my kids? I’m really upset!
But that’s just your experience. That doesn’t make anyone else’s experience a bad one that’s rooted in maliciousness. Not everything is bad or offensive for everyone. If someone declines to introduce their new born to your children, take it up with them.
@Seraphina I agree with you, it each their own. At first I was like “um yeah it is recommended that new babies not be around snotty germy little kids for a while” but I also just realized that I took my 2 year old to the hospital with me to meet his day old cousin. That was with my sister’s permission of course.
As a mother of 3 and with 2 in school, maybe it was even Kate who said “let’s hold off for a minute” because she would want the same for her children.
I don’t understand why this is news. Babies aren’t aware of who is visiting them. Newborns don’t do much but eat, sleep, poop, and cry. There’s not much to see.
Consider the source. The daily fail has nothing of substance to report on concerning Meghan so they need to make stuff up in order to generate clicks. Doubt Meghan reads such crap herself but if she hears about it I’m sure she’s having a good life.
Side note – her friend Jessica Mulroney is a little bit more sensitive to the fail’s vitriol and has indicated on her social media that she does read what they write about her 🤣
Thought it made perfect sense. I would not want my new born around small children, who were not part of the household, until he had some immunity built up either. Germs are a fact.
They’re not close, you can tell….though there were stories before MM got pregnant saying Kate decided MM is not really her cup of tea.
I haven’t seen any photos of the older Cambridge children approaching Archie in MM’s arms at the polo match, and that really says something…it’s like Kate told them in advance to stay within a certain area.
And when you consider the video footage of DIana calling for young children at Harry’s christening to have a close up view, well, the charity polo match photos are ice cold by comparison. Sad.
I’m sorry, but being accepted by Kate Middleton is not a major life goal. Also, families go through ups and downs. I don’t know why people think that Will and Harry should be joined at the hip for the rest of their lives. I love my sister and her family dearly, but I don’t need to be around them all the time.
omg. she is not saying that is meghan’s goal life to be liked by kate.
“I haven’t seen any photos of the older Cambridge children approaching Archie in MM’s arms at the polo match, and that really says something”
Yeah, it says kids are not intrested in babies. Why should they?
I took the fact that we didn’t see the Cambridge kids approach Meg and Archie as they had already met him and now he’s old news to them. Or at least not as much fun as running around playing.
Exactly.
^This,and I also would consider that perhaps Kate told her eldest two in advance to be calm around the baby or go outside to play.George and Charlotte have seen babies before aka Lou,and pippa’s babe so…
Interesting point; that sounds plausible to me!
What’s sad is this transparent comment. Go back to the Daily Fail dear.
Can we NOT tell people who disagree with us to go back where they came? It’s so rude and unnecessary. If you disagree, say so and move on.
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Citresse has been here for quite some time. And 1 of the more level headed and factual posters.
And that was very much a “go back to the place where I’m assuming you came from” reference. Which in today’s climate is poorly timed.
@Wigletwatcher I’m just seeing this comment but I feel the need to reply: I am a Muslim black woman in America. I have ACTUALLY been told to go back to where I came from. So you comparing what I said to that and mentioning “today’s political climate” is a frankly utterly ridiculous false equivalency. And actually quite offensive. I too have been on this site. For years in fact. Long before I started commenting. And that has literally nothing to do with anything. I found Citresse’s comment to be passive aggressive in the way that a lot of peoples digs are Meghan are. Much like the comments on the Daily Fail. Period.
There are photos of George standing next to Meghan looking up at Archie and Louis seemed very interested in his younger cousin. It’s not Kate, her kids, Meghan, and Archie were photographed or video taped the entire match, so just because there aren’t a million photos of the kids interacting doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Also, neither Kate nor Meghan are the slightest bit like Diana. Each have their own individual style and mannerisms. It isn’t quite fair of people to compare these two women to their deceased mother-in-law.
“…there were stories before MM got pregnant saying Kate decided MM is not really her cup of tea.”
“I haven’t seen any photos of the older Cambridge children approaching Archie…”
If it is true that Kate does not like Meghan (fwiw I don’t personally believe it), why would that translate into her telling her kids to stay away from their cousin? Doesn’t that make Kate sound like a really petty a-hole?
Your theory just does not hold water. I think other theories are probably right; i.e. Meghan and Kate know that Archie is still very young and his immune system is not yet ready for all those germs that older children carry.
Archie is the newborn cousin of the Cambridge children. I would’ve expected more interest from George and Charlotte….and as for my remarks regarding Kate, it could have been simply that Kate advised the children to not approach or disturb Archie as he may be sleeping, or don’t approach unless MM invites to see Archie up close.
Based on the germ fear, Kate wouldn’t have allowed newborn Charlotte to be held by young George in photos released to public or newborn Louis with young Charlotte.
Hi Citresse, I remember you as a long time poster, and I don’t think you’re a daily fail troll. But I do have to disagree with your expectations of how young children would interact with babies.
Archie can’t run and play with George or Charlotte, so why would they be interested in him? Babies are pretty boring to young children- I remember that.
@Citresse: Diana was a famewhore and would take any opportunity to look like she was Mother Teresa with her kids – she used them to denigrate Charles as a father all the time. I’m not saying she didn’t love them but there’s a world of difference between the way she presented William and Harry, and the way Kate and Meghan do. Times have changed and keeping the press at bay is of prime importance.
Just to alert everyone. A lot of the Meghan haters like to use MM instead of using her name. You see the initials a lot on the social media hate pages and DM comment section.
For me, typing MM is just faster and easier because I use a tablet.
Some people abbreviate for the Queen too, note I always type HM.
But yet, in your long post, you typed out every name except Meghan’s.
I wish we could have two letters for all royals…I would use KM or DC (Duchess Catherine) for Kate or perhaps WW for William (William Wales)…if Charles becomes King, I would type HM for him and QC (not to be confused with Queen’s counsel) for Queen Camilla.
Even if they were “haters” (or, more likely, simple non-fans) – why does anyone have to be “alerted” about it?
So that they don’t commit the mistake of reading their comments and evaluating them strictly based on what they say?
Bizarre.
Typing just her initials could have the effect of subconsciously dehumanizing her though, especially if you’re typing out everyone else’s name but hers (taking her name/identity away). It couldn’t hurt to type four extra letters surely? Especially if one is exposed to a lot of negative media about her (and that media uses just her initials as well), typing her full name might help one’s subconscious keep perspective.
But that doesn’t mean Meghan supporters can’t use MM also. I think anyone can choose, and a comment’s perspective will prove the writer’s perspective.
“I haven’t seen any photos of the older Cambridge children approaching Archie in MM’s arms at the polo match”
Well yeah because they were too busy playing with a soccer ball. What six year old is going to want to hang out with a baby?
I think you’re desperately trying to read something negative in the small number of photos that we’ve seen. Archie’s an infant and to small, active children like George and Charlotte, he’s not going to be that interesting. Ultimately, this is a non-issue.
Consider the fact that you’re comparing a christening, which is arguably a family event specifically intended for the purpose of congregating various extended relations under the same roof, with a polo match, which is hardly that. If you’re getting snubbed by your own family members at a family event, THAT would be news. Same with if you’re doing the snubbing. But otherwise? Not the same thing, and the comparison doesn’t hold. Try again.
Kate told her kids to keep away from Meghan and Archie? Wtf – you guys are weird. You can clearly see baby Louis reaching out to baby Archie, making faces, trying to interact/play, and Kate is sitting right next to them! Why blame anyone? But it’s interesting how everyone blames Kate for everything- I guess William doesn’t have a say in anything regarding his family and home lol. As if…
guest, your first sentence Lol….anyway, when I first saw the photo of Louis (I should refer to him as LL for Kaiser’s brilliant choice of song Louie Louie song by the Kingsmen for CB name the prince story …yes I remember!)..I thought perhaps he was sticking his tongue out at MM and baby, but I much prefer the thought he was blowing kisses.
The article isn’t shady though? I mean she says it was a lovely time.
I didn’t think it was shady at all.
I’m a pediatrician and I advise families to minimize visitors, and absolutely no little children (under school age) until 2 months old. At 2 months old they can get their vaccines and a fever is no longer considered a medical emergency.
2 montha was recc’d by our doc too. I didn’t let my kid out into the world until she was about 6months. Family saw her after verifying they were fully vaccinated, about 4 months old probably. We don’t live particularly close nor are very close to our fam, so it’s nbd for us.
Meanwhile my SIL is carting her 2 week old around July 4th parades. Ugh, just gives me anxiety thinking about it.
Really? In Asian and African countries babies have extended families and neighbours living in the same compound and these babies are not isolated for six months….l think such advice is over the top. It is also good for babies to get used to being handled by others apart from their mothers.
@PrincessK, the key here is that they live in the same compound, and are presumably sharing the same germs. That’s a little different from a number of small children who don’t live in the same area, who could be introducing new pathogens that the baby (or its parents) aren’t used to. So no, having your extended family living nearby and being frequent visitors isn’t the same thing.
Well, to each his or her own, but many babies have older siblings in day care; they do get exposed to germs. And I agree with Princess K that it’s good for babies to get used to being handled by a variety of people. I don’t think it’s bad to keep a baby apart, but I wouldn’t judge anyone who took a baby out either. If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t NOBODY happy, and if I’d been cooped up for 2 months with my baby, it wouldn’t have been good…
I mean he’s only 8 weeks old. How many kid visitors did your 8 week old get? This story is crazy, and I think Meghan brought the baby to the Trooping too. Not sure if she is breastfeeding or not, not my or anyone’s business, but don’t say that to the breastfeeding brigade they’ll yell at you. Still most new first time mothers won’t go for hours without seeing their baby. Sure some do, and no judgement either way, but most don’t. Why do people find it perfectly acceptable to criticize Mom’s on everything? It’s ridiculous. Each kid, mom and family is different to each their own.
No kids around my baby until AFTER first round of shots. Period. Maybe longer
Goodall said she cuddled Archie in June; Archie one month old.
Old people don’t have germs?
Most of us are inoculated.
An adult, who has had all their shots plus boosters in her case, held a baby, and? Little kids aren’t that interested in babies, they most certainly aren’t going to sit still to hold them when they can play outside. I see that you can tell exactly what’s going on in folks lives by looking at pictures of people you don’t even know and judging them. Can you predict the future also?
Older people are much cleaner than little kids. They wash their hands much more often and effectively for one, and they don’t spread snot and saliva around for another…
Not only that, Jane Goodall travels extensively, and I’m sure she is inoculated against stuff most might not even have heard of before!
Not like toddlers! They’re walking Petri dishes!
Clearly you don’t have children. “Older” people (lets not use the pejorative “old people”) have had all their inoculations and aren’t running around playing in the dirt, handling grubby toys and wiping boogers away with their hands before they hold a baby. Archie’s a newborn and has no defenses against germs and viruses. Period. Stop with the Meghan-bashing, you’ve reached the bottom of the barrel.
Little kids (up to about 3rd / 4th grades) are giant petri dishes of nasty 4SS germs.
Older folks, it’s more Whopping Cough that is bad for the kids but the the oldies aren’t coughing, that’s fine.
I had micro preemies so we were basically quarantined for a few months, but when they came home, we were very careful the first few months. In fact, they got very sick at their christening when they were 6 months old.
What you are all saying is too much, no wonder so many western kids have allergies being so wrapped up in cotton wool. In Asian and African countries babies have extended families and neighbours living in the same compound and these babies are not isolated for six months….l think such advice is over the top. It is also good for babies to get used to being handled by others apart from their mothers.
I agree that the Cambridge kids met Archie during the Trooping, no way was he left behind in Windsor.
The “germs” thing was my first thought. I bet they did meet before the polo match; however if that was the first time they met, it wouldn’t surprise me. When my daughter was born I was so hesitant to let other kids touch her due to germs. Last thing anyone needs is a newborn back in the hospital with hand, foot, and mouth disease, pneumonia, the flu, etc.
Mine are now 21, 18 & 18, but IIRC, contact with a neonate was recommended to be extremely limited in the first month, because if a neonate develops a temperature, they must be admitted to NICU/PICU for FULL sepsis workup.
Exactly.
This is utter and total nonsense made up story for the sole purpose of furthering the narrative that Meghan is keeping Archie locked up in the attic at Frog-more away from everyone i.e. the UK press.
They are desperate to get their racist little mitts all over Archie and ‘other’ him as soon as is humanly possible.
They will watch for every move Archie makes i.e. if he shakes his rattle too hard then he has inherited his mother’s Diva like tendencies.
We’re in the royal dry season…I don’t enjoy it… it’ll stay extra highly speculative on various nonsense until September.
Germs. Kids bring germs home from school and spread them like plague rats.
Both of my kids met no other children until they had their first shots. Then it was look but no touchy.
Seriously! My nephew is in day care and has had a constantly running nose since the day he started. He gave every single adult in our family the most vicious cold in living memory while he had the sniffles. I can’t imagine what that little plague carrier (AKA my favourite person on earth) would do to a newborn with a delicate immune system.
Oh please….
How did humans become so overprotective, no wonder allergies are on the increase.
Ikr? Mine are now 24 and 12, but I don’t recall being like this with either. With both of them I had to go back to work within eight weeks (actually sooner with my first), and my younger had two older half-brothers who were two and four who had limited contact with him and then daycare for #2, my mom watched #1. Goodness, who but an actual duchess has the luxury to not take the baby anywhere for two months? To each their own, but my kids both lived to tell the tale and honestly to this day rarely ever get sick and have zero allergies.
Allergies are on the increase because before, if you had allergies as a child, you either died if they were severe enough, or your parents never bothered to take you in and get you checked and you spent your whole childhood with an upset stomach and a “weak” constitution. People are getting diagnosed at higher rates now because they have the access to healthcare, not because people are somehow eroding natural immunities. Please stop with this.
Also, in Asian and a few African countries, women entered periods of confinement soon after their children are born, where they would stay at home as much as possible, and look after their new born. What purpose do you think this served?
A, I must tell you that although I’m sure you’re correct that allergies may have gone undiagnosed in the past, it’s scientific fact that allergies have been tied to a lack of exposure to various things. For years parents were told to keep babies from peanuts for the first several years to avoid allergies. They found that among those kids, allergies to peanuts skyrocketed, so NOW they are telling parents to chew peanuts up and give it to babies who are eating solid food. Also, Amish kids who are around all kinds of barnyard contaminants have the lowest rate of asthma of any population. I’ve read a lot about it; it’s pretty interesting.
Ridiculous. My daughter was not exposed to young children when she was an infant. Totally normal.
This is a really weird story. Two months is like a day in busy adult life. Outside of Facebook, I can easily go two months not interacting with close friends/family with whom I don’t live or work. A new baby is a time for congratulations but not necessarily visting? Unless you’re royal and a baby is a coworker, I guess.
Totally normal. My two year old didn’t meet her new cousin until she was over a month old because my kid goes to daycare and is a walking petri dish. And even then I had her keep a bit of distance and not touch the baby’s face or hands. I’m pregnant now with my second and am due in winter and I’ll be limiting visitors (kids AND adults) until he gets his first shots. They are making something out of nothing. As usual.
“They are making something out of nothing. As usual.”
Making something out of nothing is what The Daily Fail does. The Daily Fail needs to concentrate on the new Prime Minister and the mess called BREXSHIT.
Amen!!
Personally I wish this site would stop posting the fail’s garbage. Does anyone see it as a credible publication?
I didn’t read this story as negative to be fair (on either couple). Besides it could be made up as its so light on details, or it could be true as a lot of people minimise interactions with newborns and germy kids. It’s a recipe for disaster if they’re at school, they’re disease factories. Wee babys immune system shouldn’t have to cope with that if its not completely necessary.
Kids are germ buckets. I’d keep my baby away from them, too.
First, I don’t believe this story for a second. No way would Kate and Meghan have the first time the cousins met be at a public polo match. Even if Archie is a lump, it just wouldn’t happen that way.
Second, if we play along that this IS true, or at least that its true that the cousins didn’t meet until Archie was a month or two old – so what? there could be a myriad of reasons for it, including germs/vaccinations, schedules, etc. It’s not really a big deal IMO.
There’s also a story this week about how the Cambridge kids dote on Archie so I guess it’s up to you which narrative you want to go with. We’ve never seen a photo or video of Harry interacting with his niece and nephews but nobody ever questioned how close he was to them so why are people buying into this? I’d just like to remind everyone that Emily Andrews also wrote an entire article about what happened at Meghan’s baby shower before it happened, and she made up a story about all the gifts Priyanka Chopra bought for Archie and got called out by Priyanka for lying so maybe what she says should be taken with a grain of salt.
Emily Andrews is HORRIBLE. I hate her. She posted a really awful tweet about H&M’s babymoon and was like “so Sussex squad, defend THIS!!!” all about tax payer dollars etc. It was so petty and meanspirited.
Has she said anything about the Cambridge vacay yet? Twenty-seven thou a week (allegedly)? Or is it crickets?
She’s salty about getting the baby shower story so wrong.
I get her confused with the other one – Katie Nicholls. Just as bad. Maybe they’re one and the same 😉
Huge eye roll. Who cares if and when the Cambridge kids met Archie? He won’t remember when it happened. Right now, the only people he knows are the blobs that feed him and change his nappy. Everyone is just there.
This insistence that the families must interact and it be all rainbows and sugar drops is annoying. The kids weren’t interested in Meghan and Archie. They were being kids and having fun. Kate was trying to keep up with Louis. Meghan was in her own world, wrapped up in her care for her son. And in most of the pictures of Meghan supposedly interacting with Kate and the kids, they’ve cropped out the people she is standing and interacting with.
And as has been stated, a newborn’s immunity isn’t developed yet, so why expose him to those germs.
I honestly doubt the Cambridge kids would even remember it years down the line.
I absolutely do not have a problem with this. There was a news story in my local area about a newborn that died of something contagious (sorry I forget what, it’s been a while) after some family members brought their unvaccinated children to visit and the children kissed the new baby.
If this is true, it’s curious that the Cambridge kids didn’t go to the christening. The ceremony itself is pretty short and there’s usually a party afterwards.
I don’t believe it – I think the cousins got to meet the newest addition just before Trooping
Man, the Daily Fail is missing their click-bait aren’t they? What’s next? “Meghan breathes air — is air pollution increasing?”
Did the media ever consider that Kate had reservations about bringing her children around Archie until sufficient time had passed for his immune system to strengthen? She is a mom three times over and knows that children are walking petri dishes as others have noted. I guess creating drama where none exists and painting Meghan as the de facto uppity diva is what sells papers and clicks to their websites these days….
My 1.5 year old got a stomach bug from his school aged cousins THE DAY we brought our 3 day old baby home. I packed up myself and baby and we went to my parents home for two full days until everyone was healthy! I was terrified our 3 day old got it, or I would, and not be able to nurse. Plus I was recovering from giving birth and being ripped open down below. I was full of stitches. There is nothing wrong with waiting a few months to be around other kids that aren’t your siblings. Momma knows best!
Plus, if you factor in recovery time and stuff–how many people, really, would be up for entertaining a family of five, of whom three of them are children? And maybe Kate didn’t want to bring all three kids to a house with a new born, whose parents were probably wishing they didn’t have to deal with any visitors because that cuts into their sleeping time.
Must be really s-l-o-w news month with the Cambridges on vacation and the Sussexs still laying low. The tabloids are certainly scraping the barnacles off the boat bottom for this one!
I’m surprised by everyone saying their pediatricians recommended keeping young children away from the baby. What about babies with older siblings? What about parents who have to go shopping with the baby because they don’t have help? That advice seems impractical for people in the real world with real responsibilities and no ability to hire baby care.
My pediatrician’s advice was to reduce contact as much as was practical. If you take your newborn shopping, just don’t let strangers get in their face. don’t let people that you know aren’t vaccinated have close contact with the new baby. And older siblings are usually more vaccinated – so George may be fully vaccinated, but Louis is obviously not.
We were told to limit where we could, but that real life happens and it isn’t feasible usually to keep a baby shut away for all that time. Also, being in a store is different than little germy cousins touching and kissing a newborn.
I had horrific postpartum anxiety and my kid didn’t even leave the house save for doctor visits until she was 6 months old or so. I was working 50 hours a week and would go grocery shopping at 3 or 4 am while my child stayed home with her dad so i wouldn’t expose her. It was an awful time, but i can assure you that fear is a great motivator to get things done.
a lot of babies have to go to daycare at 2-3-4 months old.
Thank you Carey….a voice of sense, l cannot believe what l am reading….mother’s incubating themselves and baby away from human contact.
Well my newborn has a sibling that goes to nursery. I never thought of limiting visits. My health visitor didn’t mention anything about this either (I’m in the UK)
And we’re about to travel to France now that the baby is 2 months!
She had a first round of vaccins so I’m not worried.
I have no idea about the veracity of the story but the two month rule sounds like an American thing. I’ve never heard of it and my mum is a Health visitor too. I’m from a big extended family and our babies were introduced to their cousins based around diaries rather than germs.
This is funny. Babies don’t “meet” people at 2 months old. Two years I might side eye, but seriously two months? Who cares?
I’m sure the adults were much more interested in the new baby than the Cambridge kids. Louis is a toddler, Charlotte is just barely a preschooler and as for George? A five year old interested in giving a baby more than a glance? Hardly, unless it’s a sibling living in the home with them. So yeah, if the families are not close, don’t socialize or live near each other then I could see the kids not meeting for a while. I’m sure as they get older there will be more interaction.
99.5 % likelihood of Emily Andrews having made up this story. Personally I believe the Cambridge children and other family members met Archie just before TTC. Would I expect children of 5, 3 and 1 playing outdoors to be interested in a baby closely held in his mother`s arms. Not at all.
If this story is true then it is a question of who leaked it? It would then be following a pattern of everytime the Cambridges and the Sussexes mingle, then leaked stories of what “everybody” (with more weight laid on what Meghan) was doing. Anybody remember sandringham at Christmas? Who wants to know what food was eaten by the RF at the shoot and who played what game? If any member of the BRF is doing this,please have some dignity. How low one can sink!!! ? Please!!!
I still think that the Sussexes moving to Frogmore cottage was one of their smartest moves. I can imagine the discrete flow of guests at that home with no leaks whatsoever and only knowing who has been there when the guests themselves say it. I mean Barack and Michelle Obama could have been visitors and no one would be wiser.
Never thought of the risks of infectious diseases involved in a baby of a few weeks closely interacting with young children. Thanks to those who educated some us, seeing as how many times can one ask ” Did you know that the Cambridge children never met Archie before and did not interact at Polo ??” Better to state outright what one is trying to say than to repeat the question 6 times !!!!!
Americans are strange with the no little kids visiting bc of germs and stuff. In most countries, families visit right away or even within days. It’s your right but you just make sure you bathe your kid and they wash their hand and stuff before meeting the newborn. Plus, parents themselves bring in germs. Hospitals are some of the most germ filled places in the world and usually the dad takes a day or two off and then comes home from work. Work places are usually a revolving door of germs bc one person gets it and you rotate. You just shower and wash hands before you hold the baby like a little kid would do.Plus Meghan and Harry have staff who may also carry germs and stuff. Culturally diff I guess but Americans seem to the anomoly when it comes to this
Exactly, what l am reading here sounds completely weird, as though everyone is from a very rich rarified Manhattan background isolated from the real world and neurotic with it.
I grew up in an Asian country, and when I was a small child and I had new born cousins, the hospitals had rules restricting children below a certain age from visiting the neonatal unit because germs. When we got around to visiting them, I was specifically told to watch my distance, to not breathe too close to babies, to be careful etc.
Grown ups can be reasonably relied upon to adhere to standards of cleanliness. Kids, not so much. You’re free to think what you want, but putting this down to neurosis, or missing the point entirely and assuming that this is an iron clad rule that MUST be followed, rather than a recommendation that people can work with according to their comfort level, is ridiculous. No doctor will tell you to sterilize all children who come in contact with your baby. But they WILL tell you to be careful, to limit contact for a little while as much as possible, and not sweat the small stuff.
I can totally believe this, but I also don’t think it’s a big deal. It’s not like they live next door to one another and George and Charlotte had school.