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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP:  out of curiosity, what do you consider "helping"?

Is it cooking meals, doing laundry, changing diapers, vacuuming, taking the dog for a walk, cleaning out the kitty litter, running to the grocery store, greeting drop in guests, feeding those guests, sterilizing bottles, letting your DiL sleep when she needs to?

Or is it helping by holding the baby?[/quote]

Haha, I point blank asked my Mom if she would help with errands, housework, meals, etc while I get the hang of baby stuff and recovered the first couple weeks. She point blank said "no, but she would play with the baby!" 
She and my father would be out of town houseguests then, and due to their (self-centered) answer, now they are coming month 2.

The inlaws have a slick proposal too. They want to wait until we figure everything out, recover, and I am back at work, and then come visit for "several weeks" and be fulltime childcare. Not sure we're going with that as (a) houseguests for over a week are stressful, and (b) they haven't even babysat an infant in decades.

Meanwhile, I'm looking fw to being a total sore zombie for the first couple months.....ugh....  and we're considering just making a big triangle of flights to both parents for Christmas/new years time instead.  Might be better than our home (and budget!) ballooning from 2 people to 5 people all at once! [/quote]

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