who did you leave your kid (s) with when you had another baby?

[josaucek]

More specifically, did anyone have their baby at night, and if so, did yo wake your other kids up to tell them you were off to hospital, or let them wake up with whoever you'd planned to be there? Good/bad experiences?
Thanks!

My waters went at 19.15 as I was bathing DS1, I called bil as mil let us down and we couldn't contact her. bil came and collected dh, me and ds1, dropped ds1 off at his house where sil was waiting for him, then he continued to take me and dh to hospital. DS1 stayed the night at bil and sils. DS2 was born 01.45 in the morning
It would have been the same if it had happened later at night.

My labour started at about 3am, and at 5am I called my friend t ocme over.
Whaen dd1 woke up ahe found my friend here, but wasn't phased by it.
She spent the morning with her, then they came in to se me after lunch. And the baby obviously.

My friend has just had her 3rd, and she explained to her other 2 that of they woke up and found littlerach there instaed of mummy, then they had to be helpful and show me where things were!

my waters broke at 17:15 too .. i'd just started having mild contractions a little bit before, so we'd gone to my parents for dinner and was there when it happened.
My parents looked after dd, while dh took me to hospital. I had dd2 23:30.
I was back home after a day, but i concentated on dd2 and myself while my sister helped take dd1 to school and back for about a month

i meant 19:15!

DS1 was 18mths at the time. We would of had to wake him up to take off his gro bag to put him in the car seat and I would have said something like 'Mummy and Daddy are going to the hospital to get your baby brother out of Mummy's tummy, you're going to stay with Auntie M, Uncle S and cousin L, We'll see you very soon and you can meet your new brother.'
Not sure he would have understood though.

my MIL was getting over the death of her husband when I had dd2 so my mother came to stay (she lives 500 miles away) with us from about a week before my due date. dd1 was 5 and knew what was going on and obviously grandma had been there for a couple of weeks before I went into hospital.

I'm now due in 3 weeks with dd3 and my mum said she would come and stay again, she is coming 4 days befroe my due date and MIL is going to come over aswell (earlier than my mum if I go early) . dd1 is nearly 7 now and knwos what going to happen and I'm hoping that dd2 will feel settled and comfortable with grandma by the time I do go into hospital, will try to tell her whats going on (ifs she's up, wouldn't wake her, shes 21 months).