to think my Mum should avoid getting drunk at the moment?

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My Mum has agreed to come and look after ds when I go into labour. I am due in two weeks time. On Thursday she is going to a lunch with friends which occurs monthly and always ends up with her being so drunk she can hardly talk and a monstrous hangover the next day. She isn't a drunk btw, it's just this one group of friends once a month. I asked today if she planned to drink on Thursday and said if so I would ask my sister to be in charge should I go into labour Thursday. She was shirty and couldn't see why she shouldn't look after ds if she'd been out with her friends. I said she may need to drive him somewhere.
I expected her to say she'd meet her friends and only have a couple of glasses of wine but was surprised when she agreed my sister should stand in instead.
Sorry very long post BUT am I being unreasonable in thinking she should ditch the booze for just this lunch date??

Oh, let her get ratarsed and enjoy herself

She wants to be careful on buses Cod.

When I worked in the hospital years ago a sectioned patient went AWOL. The police returned a different woman and arrived with her shrieking about it being a case of mistaken identity. (which indeed it was.) Apparently the police took her protestations as a sign that she was the missing woman and returned her rapidly to our care.

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lol that this is still going. She would be so mortified if she knew I had painted a picture of a drunken 60 year old lush. She is so far from Waynetta you wouldn't believe it
So it would seem the mumsnet jury concludes by a majority that I am a ratty old cow at the moment, fair enough, I would have to agree.
Very pleased with the idea that general unreasonableness may mean imminent arrival of baby though

Actually, I think YANBU and her priorities are wrong. Can't understand why you would want to risk being completely pissed on the night your grand child was born. You have got an alternative person to provide care, and I expect you won't give birth that night anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it, but I don't think your reaction is unreasonable.

see I was right to ban the booze:
leaky waters

start acting like an adult before you have your baby is my advice

my word what have I done to deserve such a harsh comment?

my mum never watched mine or watches them and I have 3 and my eldest is severely disabled. |Me and my dh cope and we are not well off. I cant tell you how self absorbed you sound from my perspective. Infact it has even suprised me

I am sure you are really lovely but honestly get over yourself

never mind about that now. Babyshoppingbags might be on its way

Oh Fio, if you can't be self-absorbed at 9 months pregnant when can you be

sorry haven't read the thread

SORRY NEVER BEEN THERE

Why are you shouting?

baby on lap

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Fio, are you ok? What's up?

(I havne't read the thread, was just commenting as a result of anohter thread)

i do have pmt
oo says i am a disgrace and need to go to my room

Go and sit on the norty step

I have admitted several times on this thread that I am being precious and pregzilla and I can see how it seems ungrateful when you don't get much parental support and I realise I am lucky with how much I usually get.

So if your waters ahve gone your mum can still go and get pissed on Thursday? MArvellous!

Poor woman, I'm with those who said Y ARE B U, I wonder what we'll feel like when we're 60 and our judgey children are saying "oh, www, you're not going out with those dodgy friends frmo mumsnet again are you? You KNOW I've only got 35 days til my baby's due!"

The worst bit www is that they will be able to read all this stuff we've written

oh fuck, yes they will
and ds will be traumatised because I posted in 2002 that he was a horrible 4yo who was difficult and made me cry a lot
(ds, I love you, always have, but there were some hard bits)

Just to state again, that I am in solidarity with shoppingbags.