Considering a HB for dc2.
Ds1 will be 2 years 8 months when the baby comes.
The thing that's holding me back on the HB front is worrying what to do with DS when I am labouring? What did you do if 'the crucial moment' (ie pushing and mooing like a cow!) coincided with either teatime or breakfast time??
I get how it's supposed to work if it happens in the middle of the night (have a friend or family member round upstairs to deal with DS1 if he wakes, whilst DH, the midwife and I get on with things downstairs).
And if it happens in the middle of the day then he will either be at nursery (he goes 4 full days per week) or if it happens on his day off we can get a family member to take him out.
But what about those core hours around breakfast time and teatime when DS will be at home and awake?? I don't want to give birth upstairs (cream carpets! Had earmarked lovely dining room with wooden floors for the action!).
Wwyd?
I am reluctant to ship him off to a relatives house because (a) my rellies live hundreds of miles away and (b) although DH's family are all nearby, they are fairly useless on the childcare front and have never had DS overnight before. So it might be strange and upsetting for him :-(