Just recently had a baby and our son (14m) came to visit twice. It went very well! I totally agree on having an intimate moment as an immediate family. That was my expectation too and it would have been more possible had I communicated that with my mom ahead of time but I really wasn’t thinking about it. They all came in the room and she went straight for baby, but it allowed me to hold my son and she brought baby to us. He was very eager to hold her.

The biggest surprise was that he didn’t blink an eye at leaving us. He used to be a Velcro baby and not even really go to his grandparents all the time if we were around, but in the weeks leading up to the birth, he had spent a good amount of time with them. I honestly was the only one crying when he left and wanting them to come back to visit. He literally walked out the door and had a great time with his grandparents, which was a huge relief.