To drive to the hospital where DiL is

[reelingaroundthechristmastree]

having my very PFGD?

(I won't really but I so want to)

CAKE?

I hate cake, DiL likes it though...

How does this work again????

Remember to book in an overnight stay at yours for next week.

Leave the poor woman aloooooone, you really don't want To be the subject of an AIBU, trust me.

And don't do what my MIL did and register PFGD at the Dr. With your versión of the name, the staff won't appreciate it when they are forced To rectify the "mistake". Again, trust me.

You must get there, your poor DS needs his mother! Take him some snacks, worry loudly about how tired he looks, tell him to come back to yours for some sleep, insist that he takes you out for a slap-up meal as soon as all the excitement is over.

How else will you be in the baby's first photos? And what if they chose an inappropriate name? Who else is going to let all friends, family, local shopkeepers, the postman and the vicar know all about your new arrival?

Just booked PFGD in Billy.

I will behave I shall give the child a lovely shepherds pie and brussels and cheesecake for pudding.

I cannot go to sleep FFS

I can't quite believe you haven't gone yet, she'll NEED you now, these middle of the night feeds and awful, you could just pop in for 5 minutes while its quiet

Congratulations grandma

Congratulations! Depends on your DIL, I had my MIL as one of my 'labour partner'

If you can't sleep then Get up and cook some meals that DS can reheat for himself because his wife will be far too busy shirking her responsabilities and you just know she won't cook properly for your son, at léast for a couple of days after she leaves hospital.

Of course she'll be back in the swing of looking after her husband by day 4, at the latest, so you don't need To do many meals for him.

What a fantastic Christmas present for your family. I love Christmas babies!

Make sure you don't go out and buy a hideous outfit for the baby's first christmas and insist on having PFGD wear it. My eldest DD was five weeks old on Christmas day and MIL dressed her like a walnut whip complete with large floppy hat. I was only 23 and so desparate for sleep I lost the will to argue

Is it here yet? Have you heard? I assume you're calling/texting frequently for updates? I'd also start posting a running commentary on FB so all and sundry can get in on the action too

Honestly, just get in the car now, with the photo album of DS when he was a baby so you can be ready to tell her exactly how to feed/settle/dress PFGC, supported by photographic examples of how you did it with DS. Because she'll really appreciate, you know she will.

(Really, congrats though. Lovely to hear how excited you are! Lucky PFGC and DiL)

Very exciting, Reeling! Stay away until you are called though.
I had DS1 at 2 in the morning, called my sister about 40 mins later and she went and fetched MIL from our house, so they both turned up about 3:30, iirc. And then, after a short visit, went away again because it was stupid o'clock and I needed to rest.

I think the idea of doing some cooking is a really good one, if you can't sleep - and the best bit will be if DP wakes up to lovely delicious smells and finds out that none of it is for him.

Don't buy the baby a Christmas outfit though. Let DIL do that.

Eeeee!! Congratulations!! Any news? Are you there yet?

More importantly though - you don't like cake? I don't understand.

You don't like cake? Must mean you love cake. Make a big one and ice it "world's best grandma".

Ill never forget my mils visit to the hospital when i had my first baby. she was in the waiting room across the corridor (hospital rules, was only allowed my mum and dh in the room) she heard his first cry and was the third person to hold him after dh and my mum (I was being stitched up/high as a kite and didn't dare hold him myself.
It meant such a lot to her, I'd do it again like a shot, and I would have loved her to actually be there.
We dont always see eye to eye but for the most part we rub along well and I know she would protect my babies with her life and that's good enough for me

Hope all is going well

My baby was in scbu & I'd had PET & an ecs so MiL was persuaded to hold off until we got home some days later...we got home early evening, all of us shattered & collapsed more or less into bed (as far as a newborn will let you! ). I will never quite manage to get over the feeling of horror as first thing (i.e. before 8am) I heard the sound of MiL's rummage & meddle emergency key in the door, as she let herself in & marched upstairs to see baby!

I hadn't been able to have a proper wash in days, felt like an extra from a horror film, was struggling to breast feed (no suckle reflex), was feeling shy & traumatised by the whole experience....& lets just say we're not that close...

So unless you really are planning a space invasion on similar terms, YANBU

Ah you are all grumpy, my DM and MIL were in the waiting room whilst I had my c-sec with DS2, obviously DH was with me but I couldn't think of any other 2 people (along with DS1 who waited with them) I wanted to see straight after having him. It was lovely and meant a lot to them also.

DS1 was in SCBU also but I would never have kept mine or DHs parents away, it is such a special time for them also but admitedly we are all very close so I guess it makes a difference. If I had DCs with XH then XMIL would be banned from entering the county until the DCs were 18

congratulations, hope it's going well.

Any news?
I bet she's lurking at the hospital gates looking all innocent!

Congrats!!!

Pils came to the hospital shortly after my son was born, I was mortified :( I was having skin to skin, had just a sheet draped over me & when I moved up the bed I had a bit of a bleed & made a mess, which they must have seen.

No need!!

Cloverkiss ...whilst I can rationally agree that some of most of the time my MiL is lovely, she couldn't take a hint wrapped around a lead pipe can be lacking in tact & shall we say is the type to rehang toilet rolls (presumably in the 'correct way'?! )...& maybe I'm just not that tolerant when my sugar levels are haywire

How exciting!

I know I'm going to be a shit MIL, as I'll want to be there asap.

I have a son & a daughter & I can't see how I'll love his child any less than hers iyswim.

OTOH-why do people tell people that they are in labour??