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When my I had my second, I had to be induced early in the morning so my parents came over to my house until DS woke up. He spent the night at their house for the two nights we stayed at the hospital though. He had stayed at my parents house before so it wasn't unfamiliar. My parents bought him a fireman playhouse and they built it together so he was pretty distracted while he was away from DH and I.

If I go into labor at night this time, my parents will sleep at my house and I'm sure they'll bring both kids to their house for the following nights. We'll have back packs ready to go for them when the time comes.

We have no family nearby and had only been living here about a year when LO2 was born. I made a list of people who said they could take our son, I knew 3 of them and had 2 standby babysitters that I hadn't actually met, but were recommended by other moms. I ended up getting through to the second person on our list when my water broke and she was amazing, her son is about 6 months younger than mine, but they play together well, he spent one night with them and everything went better than expected and my son was well behaved and totally fine with the arrangements.

We were lucky with the timing, my water broke around noon on a Saturday so everyone was home and off work. I was worried about what would happen if it were the middle of the night or while my son was at daycare.

I actually had the opposite thought -- that LO would do better at home in familiar surroundings. We had a neighbor come watch him for the day and overnight, and he did great. She's a friend so he was familiar with her. He did great!

Side note: She was actually our back-up. My ILs came but left before I had the baby (long story).

I had a scheduled csection with #2, so we had a plan. DS stayed with my mom the night before and day off my csection. He then was handed off to the IL's and stayed with them that night. My husband picked him up the 2nd night and stayed with him at our house and my mom took him again the last day. He then stayed with my mom overnight the first night we were home with DD

My parents were going to come and watch DD while I was having #2; however it would take them about 5 hours to get to our house. Our plan was to have DD go to daycare each day. If I went into labor at a time that would result in my parents not getting here before daycare closed (or overnight) we'd call some very good friends who would pick her up from daycare and then take her to our house where they would stay until my parents arrived (they were also letting our dog out). In the end, I was induced very early on a Sunday morning so they came on Saturday afternoon and stayed until Wednesday.