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[quote=Anonymous]I had to check the date on this because I thought maybe it was my post from 5 yrs ago. Also an only child of bickering parents. We didn’t tell my parents I was in labor until we were headed to the hospital - at the time they lived 6hr away. We told them no updates until the baby was born and it ended up being a whopping 30 hours later. They came when the baby was 4 days old. In the end my mom forgot she was hurt because - BABY! Also she admitted it would be hard for her to see me in so much pain. My parents stayed a 10 days and we’re a big help. My milk took forever to come in so I had a lot of lactation consultant visits, pediatric visits do jaundice and my mom drove me. Besides that I was Stu k in bed on a round the clock pumping and BF schedule.
I made it clear I didn’t want help “holding the baby” so I could cook. I told her I am her baby and she needed to take care of me so I could take care of my baby. She listened and did great.

Two years later my parents came over for dinner when my water broke and put my toddler to bed while my husband and I walked around the block for hours. We went to sleep at 10:30pm with orders to report to the hospital at 7am. At 12:30 am I had my first contraction and at 2:30am I had a baby in my arms. My parents found out when my husband came home at 7:30am to take my son to preschool. They need the new baby when he was less than 12h old. [/quote]

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