[anna.rose]

When you go into labor? I have no idea whether I should have DD stay with someone at the hospital, at their house, or have someone come to my house.

Also... did you have them take a sibling class? Our hospital offers it and I'm tempted. She's such a mommas girl that I'm afraid of how she's going to react to her brother.

What has worked for you guys in the past? (Sorry if this is a repeat. I can't remember if there's a post on it yet.)

[Wishinfor2ndblessing]

I'm having a scheduled c-section.... so I think we have decided that my brother is staying the night at our house the night before, and then is taking DD to school in the morning. That way I can have time to recoop a little before she gets to the hospital. Depending on how I am feeling he may go and pick her up early from school.

If I go into labor before... I will be calling my brother to come to my house and be with DD.

They also offer a siblings class at my hospital and we are planning on DD going to the class. (Just have to get DH to go with me to preregister at the hosptial and enroll in classes.)

[MarlowesMum]

We're scheduling Marlowe for a sibling class at the hospital in November.
We live next door to my parents (trust me, it's both a blessing and a curse), so our intention is to drop Marlowe off at their house on our way out the door to the hospital for grandpa to watch her. (As grandma will be coming to the hospital to help the labor process.) Unless it's the middle of the night - in which case we'll call grandpa to come to our house and sleep.

[tricia_16_]

My aunt will be coming to our house to spend the night with my dd and my dog! My husband, sister and mom are all in the room with me so she is better off at home I think

[Shades of Grey]

I have no idea what I will do when I go into labor... My sister is likely going to be living with us still, but I would like her to be with me. My parents would probably be the ones to take him and relieve my sis to come be with me.

[dickersons09]

I am not sure yet. All our family is in Michigan and we are in Tennessee. We have a lot of good church fronds though. Ideally I would like for Miles to stay at our home the whole time. I al having a csection so I will be in the hospital for a few days...so I'm not sure how realistic that is.

[crystalcherry]

We have never done sibling classes so I'm sure we wont have the kids do them this time around either. When DS2 was born I left him with my grandparents and they brought him to the hospital after he was born then he stayed with them until we left the hospital. DS1 was not even 10 months old when DS2 was born so his excitement level about getting a sibbling was 0. My grandparents kepts DS1 & 2 and followed the same plan as before. I don't have a clue what we are going to do this time since my family is 6 hours away and if I go into labor on my own there is no way for them to get here in time. I just hope I don't have to go through the entire labor and delivery alone while DH is at home with the kids.

[Amari]

My parents came over when I went into labor with #2. I think the same will happen, but if I am going way too quickly I will have a friend come until my parents get here, they are about 45-1 or so away. I didn't do a sibling class, ds1 was only 1 1/2, but I did read one of those you're a big brother books. Will do the same this time!

[gardenbelle]

I love the idea of the sibling class! I didn't do one with #2's pregnancy but I might look into it for Jack and Penny. Jack was under 2 when P was born so I didn't even look into it but now, I think the kids might really benefit from it.
I have no clue what I will do when labor hits, but I guess I should start getting a plan together. Most likely, we'll have MIL come over once I go into labor (she lives 15 minutes away) but I guess if it's a super quick labor, I'll call my neighbor? IDK, I have to get this worked out sooner than later.
Last time, I went so far overdue (13 days) that my mom came down, so she was here when it was time for the induction and stayed with Jack (I was out of the hospital in 36 hours, so no biggy for her).
Jeeze, I think this is the part that is going to stress me out the most about going into labor - my induction with Penny was so quick that I'm sincerely afraid of an unintentionally unassisted childbirth at home.

[** Tay **]

if it happens in the middle of the night, we will be calling grandpa or my cousin to come over... my mom and sisters will be with me.

We will probably have my MIL stay with her while we are in the hosp. as long as its close to my DD ( Shes a teacher and will be on break) - but she lives an hour away so she wont be the one to get to our house right away

[Gripstress]

Oldest is 17 so no issue here We may send them to sister's house or something as it is c-section so a few nights away. Not sure if they will be in school when we have our baby so that will affect things some.

No sibling classes here either...they'll get the point lol Mine are all a bit older though.

[rucca1002]

With my second, since it was a planned c-section, we had our oldest stay with my parents for the first night and then my husband traveled back and forth with him for the remainder of the days I was in the hospital, but stayed with him at night in our house.

This time around, we will probably do something similar -- have my parents watch the boys the first night and then have my husband stay with them the remaining nights and have them in the hospital or with grandparents the other time.

We are lucky that both my parents and my hubby's parents are within 10 minutes from us (my in-laws actually live across the street) so we have help whenever we need it.

I have not done a sibling class in the past and I don't think I will do one this time around either. My DS was 2 when his brother was born so he got it, but didn't get it at the same time and my other DS will be just 2 when this one is born. So, while I think he will have a harder time adapting, I think he will be ok.

[daffneyc]

With my 3 year old, my 10 year old was in Dallas with his Dad for the summer so it wasn't an issue. But I guess I probably need to start thinking about it....We have no family close. But we have a lot of really good church friends and I'm sure one of them will help us out.

[freesiangel]

Either my parents of DH's parents will be driving down to watch Xander, but I had a pretty fast labor before, so if this one goes even faster we will have to call a friend to watch him for a bit until the parents can arrive and take over... (they live 3 hrs away) I just hope it doesn't end up being midnight and no one picks up their phone, then I have no clue what we'd do! haha

[hilhillrn]

I dont know what we're going to do. Probably someone from my church will either come over and watch them or take them to their house, depending on if I go into labor at night or not (which happened the past 2 times, so Im counting on that this time!)