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[bohemama]

My parents have invited DD to spend the night on their boat with them tomorrow night. She's been dying to do this and I would love to have an evening with just me and DH before the baby comes. My "due date" is on Monday. I'm a little nervous about letting DD be gone all night. She really wants to be at the birth and I would hate for her to miss it because my parents couldn't get her back into town on time. I don't feel like I'm going to have the baby soon, but you never know right? It would take my parents 1.5-2 hours to get her here.

What would you do?

[Becken]

I would simply lay it out for her and let her decide. These are two things she really wants to do, and the risk in going to the boat is that she might miss the birth.

She's 5? That seems old enough to make the decision on her own.

[HomeBirthMommy]

I agree with Becken. Are you parents willing to bring her in the middle of the night if you call? If your labors aren't really, really fast, she might still make it in time.

[Piper's mama]

I would let her go and make sure you could reach your parent in case you go into labor, then just call her at the first sign of a contraction!

[maciascl]

At 5 I think she could be able to understand enough of the situation to make her own decision. Plus a night alone w/ DH before the baby is born would be so wonderful. : Just be sure that you'll be able to reach your parents & call at the first sign of labor if necessary.

[bohemama]

Thanks mamas! I was planning on asking DD what she wanted to do, I just wanted some input from wise mamas first We're going to see what kind of mood she's in tonight. We've had a busy day already which started with us getting up at 3:30am to get to the hot air balloons to see dawn patrol. Next we'll be driving up to the lake to see the twins I carried during my last surrogacy. Then we're driving around the lake to a homebirth picnic with my midwife and her clients. After that we're going back to the mw's house for our 39w visit. Then we'll be home around 5pm. If I'm not feeling like I'm in labor and DD isn't a crazy grumpy person we'll let her decide if she wants to go with my parents!

Thanks again for the advice