[Jacob&RylansMomma]

I'm sorry that you were upset by that, but I'm sure that was not her intentions! My mother took a week of FMLA time off when I had my first son, and it was so nice to have her there to help. I mean, she didn't have to take care of Jacob for me, but she was there for the little things like washing laundry, getting me food and drinks, just helping with whatever I needed. I didn't feel like she took any bonding time away from me with him. I was breast feeding, and let me tell you, once you get all settled down into your chair and the baby gets latched on the last thing you want to do is try to get back up because you're dying of thirst and you forgot your drink in the kitchen! It was the little things like that that I really appreciated!

This time around we are 10 hours away from all of our family and I would LOVE to have someone around to help... DH will be off for the first 10 days so that will be great, but it would be nice to have an extra set of hands around this time to help with the little things again so me and DH could both concentrate on Rylan.