To not tell her I'm been induced

[pinkberry7258]

So I'm due my baby in a few weeks and I know I'm going to be induced the same weekend mil is going away to celebrate a family occasion with 20 members of the family that's been booked for months.
Now it doesn't bother me that she is going away as she won't be allowed visit in hospital due to restrictions and I'm planning on breastfeeding so will appreciate a bit of time at home to get used to feeding but she keeps saying she wants to cancel if I'm going to have the baby that weekend. AIBU to not tell her I'm being induced and just say I've had the baby or would you say it's selfish for her not to know?

She's had get babies. It's your turn, and you will really need the space.

another saying dont tell her simply because an induction is nothing like a c section. A c section, you know the date and time but an induction is a whole other kettle of scaled swimming things. With DS I was induced and was 3.5 hours from start to finish. However it took 2 days to get to the start of the process as they were so busy that they couldnt spare a delivery room as they were starting me off with ARM. So "I am being induced on X date" should actually be "I might be induced on X date"!

OP isn't precious, smug, mean or any of the other words used to describe not telling.

Due to VERY good reasons, unless friends live locally, no one knows I'm even pregnant (although MIL does, none of my family do) and I'm 36 weeks.

I went into labour with DC1 and MIL was away for a girls weekend, we didn't message her as knowing her she would have jumped in the car and come home. But she wasn't needed to push him out or feed him, or wipe my fevered brow, so what point would there have been to interrupt her weekend. None. But she's lovely and would never hold a grudge over that. Probably told my own mother (in a diff country) after DC arrived.

It's something that is very much between the parents of the child, and they can tell when they are ready

None of her business.