Mommyof3boys
February 1st, 2013, 06:22 PM
My sister is driving me absolutely crazy. She is trying to pick out baby stuff and saying that I can't buy a cars seat, etc until after the baby is born and we know what it is. She wants me to wait and just give her my money so she go get something girly if it is a girl. She has even went online and picked stuff out and tagged it to my fb page. I told her that we are going to buy neutral greens and browns and that I will be picking out the stuff myself but that I will let her go with me and that has calmed her down a bit but she keeps bringing it up. Anyway I can deal with that for the most part because I know she doesn't have any money so she can't buy anything without me but she does owe me $80 which she said she might wait and use it to buy me a car seat instead of paying me back. (I'm not sure what her obsession is with the car seat). I told her I would be mad if she did that.
Anyway where I really need the advise is here......
She keeps asking me if we are going to let her be in the delivery room. Before we had ds3 I told her she could be in there when he was born and I thought that she would be however my labor progressed very quickly and DH was barely in there because he had left to go to the bathroom and get a drink at the vending machine. (my labors go from almost no pain to baby born in a matter of minutes so he had no idea it was that close). Needless to say neither her or my mom were in the room when he was born and DH was barely standing in the doorway. This time around I would really like just DH and I to be there. Preferably I would like to have my family wait in the waiting room during labor and delivery ( there is no way to keep them from coming unless we just don't tell them and we will need someone to watch the boys) and allow us time to see the baby before they all barge in. My sister is extremely emotional and does not handle rejection well so I am afraid that if I tell her that DH and I are going to be the only ones present she will freak out and not talk to me for months (literally months). My mom will also be upset but she will handle it fine. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this?
Anyway where I really need the advise is here......
She keeps asking me if we are going to let her be in the delivery room. Before we had ds3 I told her she could be in there when he was born and I thought that she would be however my labor progressed very quickly and DH was barely in there because he had left to go to the bathroom and get a drink at the vending machine. (my labors go from almost no pain to baby born in a matter of minutes so he had no idea it was that close). Needless to say neither her or my mom were in the room when he was born and DH was barely standing in the doorway. This time around I would really like just DH and I to be there. Preferably I would like to have my family wait in the waiting room during labor and delivery ( there is no way to keep them from coming unless we just don't tell them and we will need someone to watch the boys) and allow us time to see the baby before they all barge in. My sister is extremely emotional and does not handle rejection well so I am afraid that if I tell her that DH and I are going to be the only ones present she will freak out and not talk to me for months (literally months). My mom will also be upset but she will handle it fine. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this?