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[quote=Anonymous]OP, down the road you will likely feel differently.  For now, it's ok for you to call these shots and to insist on what you need to be comfortable and to have your time with the baby.  From the outside and from the position of not having a newborn, once a week visits doesn't seem like much on paper.  But if they stay for loooonnng stretches, aren't helpful to you and instead interfere between you and the baby, and make you feel superfluous, then the visits have to be shortened and --in the short-run -- less frequent.  Let them come when your husband is there, and let him run interference.  Why is your SIL coming with two kids? How old are they? How long do they stay when they come?  I imagine it's also the feeling of not having any control over when these people come and what the boundaries are for when they are here.

Down the road you will be glad for the nearby family.  And you will be more secure in your position vis-a-vis the baby (I was like you and I hated when anyone else referred to the baby as "my baby" meaning their baby).[/quote]

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