If you have no family nearby (8+hours away), what did you do with LO #1 when you went into labor with #2?
If you have no family nearby (8+ hours away), what did you do with LO #1 when in labor with #2?
Nov 12, 2014You might also enjoy...
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Following! This morning I woke up to pee at 3:30am and had this thought - "WTF would we do if I went into labor right now?". Realized we need to make a plan!
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@HappyBaker: I'm freaking out... my friend who promised to help has gotten super flakey the past week and I'm scared she will flake out on me.
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Not me, but I asked my mom what they did because they lived out of state from all their family and friends. They ended up having a neighbor watch my brother when she went into labor with me. Do you have any neighbors you might be comfortable having watch B?
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We have AMAZING neighbors, and while my parents are planning on coming for when the baby is born and will hopefully have LO1, I know we could count on 2 different sets of neighbors that we are really tight with. One neighbor is my very good GF now and has 2 small boys and they all love DD and have a huge house with plenty of room and I know that in a bind, H would be welcome and totally happy there.
The other neighbors have a 16 yo daughter who is our regular babysitter and in a bind, she'll be "on call" for MOTN sitting if need be, or I'd also feel comfortable paying her for an overnight since she has her parents next door who have had 6 children of their own:)
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Travelgirl is my back up if my parents aren't here yet.
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@PrincessBaby: all of our close neighbor friends work and have offered to help but not sure it would work if I go into labor on a work day. It's definitely an option... My really good friend in the neighborhood just had her baby a week ago.
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@Adira: definitely an option.. One of the moms in my mom group offered as well but I just worry about inconveniencing people.
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@BandDmommy: I hear you, but you gotta do what you gotta do! I'm sure people will understand!! And hopefully it would only be for a day or so and then your husband could come take back over while you're in the hospital with the baby.
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This is mostly our situation (though we have someone about 4.5 hours away). And it scared me from the onset, so it made my RCS decision really easy.
I have to say if people have offered, you are in a position at this point to take them up. People shouldn't make those sort of offers without sincerity.
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I'm in the same position and I have no idea! All my friends either work or are also expecting babies very close to my due date.
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olive came 5 weeks early and at the time we didn't have a plan in place. luckily we have a babysitter with kids in high school and she came to the hospital to pick up charlie and spent the night with him. my mom hopped on a red eye from los angeles and took over in the morning!
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@MamaG: true!
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He's coming with us. He was there for conception, he's been to appts with us (vaginal ultrasound and all), and I see no reason for him not to come to the birth. We are doing a birthing center for that reason. We have no one in our new town and he goes everywhere with us.
Edit to add: I had an easy birth with him and am not a screamer.
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We took her to a friend's house. It wasn't the person we had planned either. Plan A had to go out of town that weekend, and Plan B didn't answer the phone when I went into labor. Luckily, it was a Friday evening and we were able to get some other friends to watch her. My parents drove through the night and picked her up from our friends' house the next day.
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My mom is planning to fly out the week before my due date and stay with us for a couple weeks. If LO2 comes before then, we'll rely on one of my 2 good SAHM friends (likely the one with only one kid...) to get us through labor and/or until family makes it out. I'm most worried that we'd have to move LO1 somewhere in the dead of night, so hopefully LO2 stays put for one more week!
The best idea we had was to book my mom as Southwest one-way tickets so flights should be easy to change if she needs to.
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@KayKay: that's what I'm afraid of too!
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@brownie: agh gotcha. I'm high risk so I will have a hospital birth.
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@meredithNYC: it's so nerve wracking!!
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Inlaws planned a trip, and a retired neighbor was our backup. We ended up using her and I had to induce before she went out of town!
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I absolutely didn't want my inlaws flying in, so I made a short list of people who agreed to be "on call". DS ended up staying with one of our playgroup friends and spent one night with them. It went much better than I ever could have imagined!
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