Christmas PFB

[ChristmasPFB]

Am putting this here for maximum responses.

First baby due Mid Dec. MIL is putting on a big Christmas dinner about half an hours drive away. Just overheard DH discussing with brother how we will go in the morning and stay there all day - guessing lunch will be around 2. There will be at least 8 of us there and the baby.

MIL has asked us to bring booze.

AIBU to NOT be the driver? I won't be drinking but don't want to be responsible for driving so soon after birth.

I actually don't think I will be going anyway if the baby is late, so this is all subject to change anyway but I am kind of assuming we will both be in a fog of sleep deprivation etc

So - AIBU not to really want to go at all, for that length of time, if the baby is late?

Or should I suck it up and go?

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Oh, I definitley wouldn't want to take a newborn into a room with people smoking! Either your DH will have to explain that to his M and B, or don't go!

as for peple smoking in your house - again, it's perectly OK to say 'sorry, a newborn lives here - you have t go outside to smoke!'. Once the baby arrives your DH wil feel v protective and hopefully that will enable hi to be assertive with his family.

It isn't pfb to worry about smoking over a newborn!

Thank you I am so relieved I am not being totally unreasonable apart from maybe over-thinking something which hasn't even happened yet.

I was a bit taken aback that DH thinks we will arrive at 10.30am and stay all day as I had stressed that even if the baby was on time I would prefer if we arrived a bit before lunch and then left after a couple of hours. Really though, I do think once the baby is here he might understand a bit more why that might not be possible.

Luckily for me it doesn't involve an overnight stay.

YABBU to for not wanting to be the driver.
I think you should go but just for a short time,
My niece is expecting her first Baby this week and she is planning to take him to the big family party at her Mums(my sister) on the 28th December but will be staying there on 27th and will be given her lift home.