mommy2be *due feb.27*
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I'm 25 weeks pregnant and nowadays everybody is saying to me "call me/text me when you're in labor!" or they tell my boyfriend "call me/text me when your girlfriend is in labor!" or "I wanna come visit your baby after she's born, in the hospital!"
Don't get me wrong, I love everybody's support & all, but I don't really want to text or call anyone or have my boyfriend text or call anyone when I'm in labor. I'd prefer if 30 other people didn't know I was in labor. Maybe it's cause I like to keep things to myself until they're finished, if you know what I mean. I even had a hard time saying it was OK for my mom and mom in law to be in the room when I'm in labor/giving birth. The only way they are allowed in there is if they don't say a word to me because I hate talking when I'm in pain.
Anyway, I don't really want people coming to the hospital to see my baby either. I just really wanna say "no just wait until I bring her home!!!" I'm really a germaphobic person and I don't want a bunch of people touching her, breathing on her, etc. when she's only a couple of days old. I just don't want anyone but immediate family visiting me and my baby while we're in the hospital. I'd rather wait a week or 2 before everybody starts touching her. I don't know if I'm being protective & ridiculous, but I'm really starting to get irritated. I don't want to let people know when I'm in labor, I don't want a bunch of people coming to my room when she's born and putting their hands all over her, I just want my boyfriend and I and our immediate family to enjoy her to ourselves for AT LEAST a few days.
Am I being selfish? Sometimes I feel like I am then sometimes I feel like I have a right to feel like this.
Don't get me wrong, I love everybody's support & all, but I don't really want to text or call anyone or have my boyfriend text or call anyone when I'm in labor. I'd prefer if 30 other people didn't know I was in labor. Maybe it's cause I like to keep things to myself until they're finished, if you know what I mean. I even had a hard time saying it was OK for my mom and mom in law to be in the room when I'm in labor/giving birth. The only way they are allowed in there is if they don't say a word to me because I hate talking when I'm in pain.
Anyway, I don't really want people coming to the hospital to see my baby either. I just really wanna say "no just wait until I bring her home!!!" I'm really a germaphobic person and I don't want a bunch of people touching her, breathing on her, etc. when she's only a couple of days old. I just don't want anyone but immediate family visiting me and my baby while we're in the hospital. I'd rather wait a week or 2 before everybody starts touching her. I don't know if I'm being protective & ridiculous, but I'm really starting to get irritated. I don't want to let people know when I'm in labor, I don't want a bunch of people coming to my room when she's born and putting their hands all over her, I just want my boyfriend and I and our immediate family to enjoy her to ourselves for AT LEAST a few days.
Am I being selfish? Sometimes I feel like I am then sometimes I feel like I have a right to feel like this.