My neighbour and I often do reciprocal babysitting for the odd daytime appointment etc for an hour or two. She has 2 kids, aged 3 and 1. We have one aged 3. When we go out in the evening we get a 'real' babysitter, but the ones we use are usually working/ at college etc during the day. They don't tend to use babysitters that often and don't go out much in the evenings, although they do occasionally.
I am 39 weeks pregnant, having a c-section in 4 days. I'm pretty exhausted, finishing up work, coping with a toddler, trying to get everything sorted before baby arrives and generally v uncomfortable with painful hips/ breathlessness/ tiredness/ all the usual late pregnancy stuff. My neighbour has just asked me to babysit for her kids one night this week for 3 hours while she has an early child-free dinner with her mother. She doesn't want to book a babysitter as she says she 'trusts' me more. her kids are pretty hard work (as are all kids of that age I guess) and I know that there will also be a HUGE mess afterwards that I will have to clean up and I'm finding the bending/ lifting of housework a lot to cope with atm. AIBU in thinking it is a bit off of her to ask me at this stage or should I just suck it up? I don't really want to say no, as we will probably need to ask them to babysit in an emergency for us if I go into labour before the c-section this week and don't want to cause bad feeling. Am I being unreasonable/ precious/ a bad neighbour to not want to do this?