I say uninvite because from my experience with my first birth family members just ASSUME they are invited. I basically want it to be just me, my husband, and daughter. We are likely going to do a homebirth, but in either case, how should I approach the situation? My own family realizes that we want our next birth to be a private affair because they have heard me complain enough times about how MIL crashed my first birth. She verbally said, "Yeah, I wouldn't want people there either" when we were casually talking about my upcoming baby's arrival, but she wanted a phone call when we went to the hospital. Announcing labor was OUR mistake because she took it upon herself to show up. I don't deal well with pain and discomfort when annoying people are hovering around me, so my feeling is we should just be upfront- "don't expect a phone call when we go to the hospital and we are doing a 2-week voluntary seclusion after to bond as a family, so we will call you when we are accepting visitors
2006-09-12
14:38:09
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