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cut off my nose to spite my face?

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Tinkerisdead · 20/03/2008 20:47

Right this is so jumping the gun but I think thats why its got me rattled to be honest. Im 6 weeks pregnant and my mum has declared that she will do me a deal.. she will come and stay when I have this first baby! (hmmm im sure ive seen this on a friends episode).

Im hormonal and its annoyed me for a few reasons but I wanted people who have been there to tell me whether I should accept wholeheartedly.

She lives more than 60 miles away and my inlaws are on the doorstep which annoys her. I think she wants to stay to get her foot in the door before them literally. But in my head i had this ideal of me DH and the DC all coming home and learning together, not with a matriachal figure standing over. Now I know she means well and she would be a help but even the thought is intrusive to the bubble I had created in my head.

So help, is it an unrealsitic idillic dream to be just us three or should i truly take up the offer. the other thing is that if she is here surely the inlaws will see it as a green light to be round all the time too! eek 8 months to go and already other people are making be stressed out!

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Tinkerisdead · 21/03/2008 11:34

This has really helped me to balance things in my head over night so thank you. I think I will ask to leave it open ended but for now request that they of course visit in hospital and have the odd visit in the first week but then she can stay when DH goes back to work. I think this will make him feel better about leaving us too.

I also realised that if my baby is due mid november and she comes to stay when DH is at work then she can come back again at xmas. That should keep the peace a bit more as theoretically she would be able to stay a bit longer just over a spaced out timespan thats more convienient to me and DH. Note I say Theorectically!

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funnyhaha · 21/03/2008 20:02

Sounds very sensible
I found that being pregnant really made dh & me think a lot about how our families worked/didn't work - which of these traits we wanted in our family, & which we didn't.
Slightly full-on, but a useful process, I think

Good luck!

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