Luckily my mum told me years ago that she would never dream of wanting to be in the room when I give birth, so we're on the same page there, but she does seem to think that she'll be "in the waiting room", and that she'll be getting a call when I go into labour, and will have to "rush over".
This is just so different to how I imagined it... I had just assumed that, OK, yeah, we might tell our parents when I go into labour, but why on earth they would need to "rush" anywhere, let alone be in the waiting room, I do not know. I was thinking a call a few hours after the baby is born, when we're cleaned up and rested and had sufficient time for cuddles ourselves, would suffice... My understanding is that labour can last many hours, if not days, so what on earth visitors would do in the waiting room I do not know - especially when the hospital is a 5 minute taxi ride from our house and the place where my mum will probably be staying, so why would you want to sit on an uncomfy chair with crap magazines when you could be at home watching telly and stuff in a nice armchair..? And then after the baby is born you have the afterbirth, possibly stitches, cleaning up, skin-to-skin contact with mum and dad, attempting to breastfeed... i.e., no time for visitors!
I'm just a bit confused, because, having gone through the experience herself more than once, I would have imagined my mum would know all of that, so am I missing something? Has anyone else had visitors waiting in the waiting room, and was there actually any point to it?