Guess I need to find a new sitter if I go in to labor.

darlene'smommy

All our family but my bil lives 2 hrs away. I will have a c-section planed but asked him if I were to go in to labor mainly wanting to know about the middle of the night would he be ok coming over here in the middle of the night. Answer take her with you and I will come to the hospital and pick her up. Um yes I'm going to wake my then 4 year old at 3 am. I'm hoping a friend from play group will help us out as long as her husband is in town. Other then that my doctor better be ok with me waiting 2 hrs to go to the hospital. I know the friend will be more then happy for us to drop dd off during the day or night before bedtime if we need to but I'm not sure if she will be willing to come over in the middle of the night.

darlene'smommy

Just needed to vent a little.

houndbaby

It makes it a lot more difficult to think about plans for labor when you have other children. My neighbors who we are friend with are willing to come over and stay with ds till my parents (who live 3.5 hrs away) can get here. But if I were to go into labor on Christmas Eve or Christmas day I don't know what I would do because they won't be around. That's a real concern for me since I will be 39 weeks on Christmas Eve!

darlene'smommy

It makes it much harder to plan for labor. Since we are getting a c-section date my sil is taking off that week from work starting the day of the c-section. I really don't know my neighbors enough to feel comfy asking or leaving them with dd. If dh's friend is moved closer to us by then he or his wife will come over. They are waiting to hear from a bank they but a bid on. It was foreclosed on so we have no clue how long the bank will take. It's already been 6 weeks. But the house is 20 mins away. So much closer. It was just so much easier with #1 because the dogs could stay outside and in the morning our family could feed them.

allobosc

we have the same issue with family not close by.  My BIL was supposed to dog-sit with DS (since he lived near us then) but managed to snafu that up too.

I'm hoping a co-worker of mine (who lives 1 street over) would be willing to come over if it is the middle of the night and then my SIL (or other family) will make the 2 hr. drive down to take over watching DS. 

Uhhh, actually I'm getting a little nervous about this.  I think I need a plan.

Bountifulbride

I feel ya.  We had just moved nearly 2,000 miles away from all of our family right before DS#2 was born.  We had someone we were fairly comfortable with lined up to take care of DS#1 if I went into labor in the day but we honestly did not have anyone available for the night.  And what would you know.  My water broke at 2:30 am... so we took our then 26 month old to the hospital with us.  :-S  It wasn't ideal AT ALL but we didn't know what else to do.  The nurses were really great with him and helped out a lot, thankfully.  

This time around we know more people since we've lived here longer but all of our best night time option people are going out of town, (our #1 pick flies back into Atlanta on my due date) they are all graduate student families too going home to visit for the holidays, sigh... I'm just crossing my fingers it happens when some of our more favored choices of caretakers are in town and that it happens during the day.  Please cooperate LO, please!!!

carrie52280

I have no idea what I am going to do with my son when I go into labor...haven't figured that out yet.  And if we have my step son too then we are really in for it.  My parents live about an hour away and I need my mom in the room with us...she was there for my 1st and needs to be there this time too...lol and his parents live almost 2 hours away...ugghh!  My bro lives 5 hours away.  He has 2 brothers...one an hour away and the other is close but has to be to work at 3 am....so I better go into labor during school hours...lol.

heathernacole

Do you have a neighbor close by that you would trust to come into your home and stay with your child? (of course someone your child would be comfortable with too)

darlene'smommy

heathernacole:

Do you have a neighbor close by that you would trust to come into your home and stay with your child? (of course someone your child would be comfortable with too)

The lady across the street would do it for us, but she is never home.  Her son moved back home so she baiscly lives at her boyfriends home.  If it came down to my contractions are 3 mins apart and I need to get to the hospital then I would be ok asking her son but he is 37, not married and no kids.  He is really nice and plays with dd if we are outside or he comes over for something.  But his not someone I would be super comfy with it would be more of a we need to get there right now type of thing. 

Im going to talk to my doctor and see if my contractions are not close together if he would be ok with us waiting as long as we can for some family to get here to watch her.  And hopefully by then some friends of ours get their house thats 20 mins away because I would fully trust them to come over and watch dd and they would do it in a heart beat. 

 

Im glad im not the only one that has not figuraed it out yet.  I just feel that I need to have it figuraed out by now.  We have it figuraed it for the planned c-section so im just hoping he stays put and does not come early.