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AIBU?

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To not want to travel approx 6 hours from hospital at three weeks (or less) before my due date?

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WildSeahorses · 23/02/2010 12:23

Okay, I am perfectly open to being told that I am being too precious about this if people think IABU, so please be honest with me.

I am due in the last week in May. I have been trying to arrange a date to visit my parents (who live approx 5/6 hours' drive away, depending on the traffic). They said that it wasn't convenient for me to visit for the next month, which I'm totally fine with. However, they want me to visit at some point during May and I think that that's just too close to my due date for comfort. I know that first babies don't often come early, but I'm still a bit concerned that, if things did happen quickly, I'd have a hellish drive back to London (or maybe not even make it back in time). I should add that the only reason they want me to visit in May is because "it will be warmer weather then" and not because they have existing commitments in April. However, I don't want to be being overly precious about this. AIBU to say that I could only manage a visit in April, or it will have to be a visit after the baby arrives?

Just to avoid AIBU by stealth, I should add that they don't want to visit me because "it's a long drive" (although the last time I checked, it's just as far from their house to mine as it is from mine to theirs) and because they "don't know what to do with the dogs" (surely just leave with the relatives who normally look after them when they go on holiday?).

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GuntherMcKilocodie · 24/02/2010 16:48

Aah, that's nice, good old MIL, no doubt you'll have a willing babysitter when little one is here. Good luck with the labour.

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