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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, you don't owe her this.  It's a medical procedure, YOUR medical procedure, she isn't entitled to be there.[/quote]

OP here.  Should I make it no grandmas across the board? I think I could probably be ok with just DH and not my mom but it kinda makes me a little sad to have to cut her out.[/quote]

You can have your mother...she is your mother.  [b]Your MIL should understand[/b]. Childbirth is one of those things that just breaks you down to your lowest level and it is one of the few things that you have the right to be as selfish about as you want.  I swear to my future DILs that I have no desire to watch them give birth and am happy to only come see the baby when you are ready!![/quote]

[b]It sounds like MIL [i]does [/i]understand.  And is sad about it.  [/b]

It would be very gracious of OP to give her MIL what she asked for.  A compromise of asking her to remain by her head might make everyone more comfortable with the request.  If OP cannot, then she can't.  But it doesn't sound like it would be impossible, just not her first instinct.  [/quote]

And the response to that is, "Oh well."  It's not the OP's job to make her MIL's dreams come true at the expense of her own comfort during birth, it's just not. [/quote]

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