Grandma To Be...

ashleyrodgers

Hi All,

This is my first baby, and my mom's first grandbaby.. Needless to say she is incredibly excited, as am I... My mom and I get along just fine, but most times she drives me nuts. She's overl clingy and tends to be a drama queen and is definitely a hypochondriac (spelling?)..

We are having a home birth, and I have decided I really only want my husband and the mid-wife there... But my mom lives half a mile away... How do I delicately have that conversation with her, that we wont want to tell anyone I am even in labor until the baby is born. And we want to enoy the first 48 hrs alone with our baby without any visitors... I have a feeling she will take this all very personally.

I'm having a hard enough time telling her I really dont want her at our ultrasound on Tuesday to find out what it is.. Because my cousin just had a baby and she let her mom go.. Im just more private, I dont want a show. I feel like this is important time for my husband and I to build our family. I just dont want to break her spirits too bad, and she's already guilt tripping me about moving out of state the month after the baby comes...

Help!!