Away on daughter due date

[Nancaz]

My husband has booked us a holiday of a lifetime that he has always wanted but after have found out my daughter is expecting a baby , we will be away 15days before and 3days after her due date ,it can’t be changed and I can’t express how guilty and emotional I feel about it , my daughter and I are extremely close and I wouldn’t have missed this for the world ,the holiday is going ahead but I feel sick about it and can’t bring myself to get excited, how many of you have given birth without your mum around ? Do you think it is more me wanting to be there rather than my daughter needing me ? She has an amazing partner

My mum lived in a different city with my first...he was 2 days late and she came the weekend after he was born.

My second id asked her to he my birthing partner, she won a trip sat on my due date declared "babies never come on their due date" mine did! She fought believe it when I rang!

All was fine, had a lovely birth!

My mum is quite an anxious person and had booked a holiday around my due date, so I fibbed about my due date and put it back a week, and was just very vague to others. DS was a week late (but my mum thinks he was born on his due date!) and she was home by then!

Ah OP enjoy your holiday, this is her special moment with her OH

I can't imagine anyone would want their parents to miss a holiday of a lifetime, especially when there's no guarantee the baby will be born by then.

To be honest even having her boyfriend there isn't a necessity. All she needs is decent medical professionals and she'll be well away.