SIL coming to stay with MIL near due date, i'm stressed

[buffythebarbieslayer]

SIL coming to stay with my MIL, in the week before my due date. She has four kids.

MIL is our only help when baby comes as I have no family I'm in touch with.

It may be hormone s but I'm really upset. MIL has assured us we will be her focus if baby comes but I was hoping our two kids could go stay with her for a night if I have a difficult birth.

Also SIL is hoping baby will come so she can see it. But I may not feel up to her and dh and four kids piling in.

Am I being irrational? It kept me awake last night worrying.

MIL fusses a lot over SIL and children and I can see us being sidelined

I'm seven months pregnant with my third so can totally relate to the irrational worrying about this- just blame it on the hormones!

In all honesty you shouldn't worry hon. Your sil has had four babies - she knows what it's like! Ask your mil if she could have your other two for the first few night you are home then they can keep all the kids over there - there are two of them so they should be able to cope with six between them and remember what you don't see you can't worry about! If it all gets too much with visitors just take yourself off to bed with the baby they're hardly all going to pile into the bedroom with you. That's what I'm planning to do!

You're right SJBean.

I seem to stress about every little thing at the moment.

(SIL is staying at MIL's house right? If SIL, her four kids and MIL are coming to stay at yours, move house and don't give them your new address!!!)

SIL should be well used to looking after her four children so she won't necessarily want to dump them on MIL and run, and she can even help with your two for a few days after your birth.

As for visiting you can always ask that adults only visit at the hospital and that children have a brief visit to meet the new arrival and then all go off together to play with one of the adults so that you have a break.