Please only kind replies. I'm deliberately posting here rather than elsewhere as I'm hoping to avoid the nasty relies. I'm very pregnant so the hormones are messing with me and probably clouding my judgement too.
I'm pregnant with no 3 and it genuinely feels like no one gives a damp. Family book to go away during / around due date, then say they forgot I was due. They knew we would be relying on them for childcare to make it to hospital. Home birth not an option for medical reasons.
We currently have builders in, and house is a dusty, fumy mess. Baby could arrive very soon. I ask my parents who live in a huge house (more than 10 rooms) if we could stay with them just for a few days/a week until work is completed and we have a chance to get cleaners in, and they say no as 'they don't have space'. It would be less hurtful if there was any truth to this. My late 20s brother is still living with them and has 3 rooms for his sole use. I'm rarely allowed to even visit.
I tried to tell them that this rejection is hurtful, but they don't want to hear. They have offered no practical support whatsoever (eg helping us to find somewhere to live, helping find a cleaner ) but just said to go back to the building site with the baby, regardless of the health risks.
I have looked at local short let's but they are very expensive, likely prohibitively so for us.
I just feel like our options are pretty limited, and I'm finding the lack of care very upsetting. I realise that everything is off kilter right now due to pregnancy, and maybe I'm unreasonable to expect any support, bit perhaps they could be nicer about it. I have been there for my parents when they have had physical illness, and have attended hospital, taken time off work to care for them etc. It just feels like when I could do with help there isn't any forthcoming, and they aren't even nice about that.