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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Sure, and maybe we can get my high school English teacher in there to hold my other leg...
Yesterday, the Pretend Husband came home and told me his mother is insistent that she be in the delivery room when the baby is born. I think I stopped breathing until he explained that, after the Pretend Mother-in-Law kept talking about it, he questioned her until she clarified that by "delivery room," she actually meant "hospital waiting room." I mean, I can't guarantee that she won't be sitting in there for a good 10 or 12 hours if she insists on going to the hospital when we do, but I will take that option over having extra people in the actual delivery room staring at my hoo-hah anyday.
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So I guess this means there will be no birthing video? :-)
This reminds me of a story. My best friend and her hubby agreed that it would be just the two of them in the delivery room, no moms (also didn't want her MIL to see her parts). Her husband wanted to video. She said NO WAY! So, he asked if he could take a few pictures. She reluctantly agreed under the rules that NO ONE saw them but the two of them. So, the baby comes, the pictures get taken, no one sees them, all is well. Sister-in-law asks for a few of the "just born" pictures for the baby shower. Husband burns her a CD. SIL takes the CD to little photo kiosk thingy at Walmart and starts looking through them. What appears on screen for everyone in a two aisle radius to see? BFF's hoo-hah, complete with exiting baby. !!!!!! Yeah, he accidentally put ALL the pictures on the CD. Moral of the story: Let Grandma keep the camera in the waiting room. Very little good comes from grandmas OR cameras in the delivery room!
Maybe you could charge admission- a few hundred a head. Babies are expensive, start putting away some extra cash now.
If my MIL made a request like being in the room, I'd probably choke on my tongue. At least she wants to be there though. My friend just had a baby after horrible labor and her baby daddy mama sat there and talked about his ex-gfs. I'd a cut her.
To be honest, I'm so NOT cool with the idea of having anyone in the waiting room, I'm really thinking I don't want to call a soul, except for MY mom, until the baby is actually HERE. Yes, the nurses can keep them away from me if they show up to wait in person, but knowing me, I'll find their mere presence in the same building to be stressful.
(I don't particularly want my mom in the delivery room, but I do feel strongly, for some reason, that I want her to be my first post-birth visitor. For some reason the idea that my ILs could see us and meet the baby first bugs me. Which probably makes me a horrible person, but there it is.)
Oh yeah, the last thing I would want at that point would be the in-laws peering up there!!! They're welcome to hang out in the waiting room if they really want to ; )
My MIL is on the list of people who will most definitely NOT be seeing my hoo-ha. But actually everyone except for the hubs and the docs and nurses are on that list. That is something I don't want to share w/ anyone. Ew.
When you are in the moment, pushing the kid out, you don't care who is in there! I must have had a dozen people who I did not know wander in and out and frankly, I didn't care! And I wasn't even on drugs!
hahaha...too funny. We opted for no family but there is a slew of hospital personnel in and out of the room for sure. We had 15+ people in the waiting room and that was the perfect set up for me. My Mom wanted to be in the delivery room but when our son came 2 weeks early, that didnt happen either.
Tell everyone that your 'due date has been changed, and its now two weeks later'. Could reduce the chance of excess visitors showing up...
Good Luck!
These are all pretty excellent suggestions.
I can tell you that I only want my husband there. However, I could see where I might want my sister there if I were particularly frightened or something was wrong. That said, I don't see her signing up for the event...
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