We stayed home with SINGA for the first 40 days as much as possible.
This is a tradition many cultures still practice today. They believe that the baby’s soul is still not really in this World. They say it is still in transition from there to here...
We did the same because it simply didn’t feel right to expose our little angel to anything other than our loving home. Most things in our crazy world are too intense for a newborn, I think. We managed well to go shopping real quick while he was sleeping and Oma + Opa where watching him. We all were sleeping a lot after all… cuddled up nicely all the time 8)