Newborn Visitor Rules Sign and New Baby Help Checklist: The Visitor Welcome Packet
Twelve printable pages for the people you do want to come over. A door sign, three ground rules, a "how to help without being told" list, a food-drop menu, and a one-page kitchen orientation so you don't have to teach anyone where the silverware is. Pairs with the Saying No Script Pack.
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The Saying No Script Pack is for the people who shouldn’t come yet. This is for the people who can.
Most of the visitor advice for new parents is “set boundaries”, which is correct and also useless if the version of you who needs to set them is asleep. So this packet does it for you. You print it once, in the third trimester, with your partner. You leave it on the kitchen counter for whoever shows up.
What’s inside
Twelve pages, printable:
- The door sign, in two versions: “we are awake, come in” and “we are resting, please don’t ring”. Print, laminate if you want, hang on a hook by the door.
- Three ground rules, on one page, with space for your own. Wash hands. No kissing the baby. If you came with a cough, please come back later.
- The “how to help without being told” list. Twelve specific actions, no asking. Take out the trash. Fold the laundry that’s on the chair. Walk the dog. Empty the dishwasher. Make a coffee. Refill her water glass.
- The food-drop menu. Three things you’d actually eat, three you wouldn’t. The brand-specific request list (the muffins from that place, the soup from the other place). Date stamps so you know when things were dropped off.
- The kitchen orientation, one page. Where the cups are. Where the trash bag refills live. Where the dog leash is. Stick it on the fridge.
- The visit log, optional but useful. Who came, when, what they brought. So you can write thank-you notes later, or not, and either way know who showed up.
Who this is for
You, in the third trimester, setting up the front-of-house before the baby comes.
You, in week three postpartum, when your sister is asking what she can do and you cannot answer in full sentences.
The mother-in-law who asked once and is asking again. Hand her the packet.
Format
Instant-download PDF, US Letter + A4. Print, hang, distribute. Personal use only.
From Soothemade Notes, a small apothecary of printables, planners, and cards for the unphotographed parts of new parenthood. Made slowly, in plain language.
