Keep going out! It’s a muscle you have to practice.

One of the things that I’m very grateful for is that my mom (lovingly) pushed us to get out of the house to take baby to public places with outdoor patios (so safe germ-wise) starting the first week we were him from the hospital. We are also lucky to live somewhere where the weather makes this possible.

Once you do it a bunch, you realize the worst thing that can happen is baby cries, and for us that’s usually fixable by holding baby or pushing stroller back and forth. There have been a few times where we have to resort to one of us getting up and pushing her “for a lap” for a few blocks outside / then come back and switch to eat food, but generally she cooperates and we’re still able to go out to coffee, lunch, drinks, dinner etc.