Debbie Lawson, neo-natal manager, at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax says cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people.
Lawson adds, "All mothers want people to admire their babies because all babies are beautiful. But, in a case where a mother did not want to answer questions it should be up to that individual to say so."
Some new mothers have already said they are astonished by the rules which stop people asking questions about their babies or looking at them in maternity wards.
Lawson says, "We often get visitors wandering over to peer into cots but people sometimes touch or talk about the baby like they would if they were examining tins in a supermarket and that should not happen."
A spokeswoman for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust says the advice was as much to do with reducing infection as it was upholding "rights".
