The good thing with the staff in the maternity ward is if you tell them you don't want any visitors, they won't let anyone in to visit you (so you don't have to be the bad guy).

I personally would've preferred to have no visitors the day DS was born (he was born just after 3pm) but my mum and sister walked straight into the birth suites not even an hour after I'd had him! I still feel like me and DF missed out on that 'special time' with DS just after he was born because of it and I'm adament that next time there will be no visitors at all until I say I'm ready.

Like the other girls have said, its hard to tell how you're going to feel until it happens and will probably depend on the time of day and length of labour too as to when you're ready for visitors.

GL in making the right decision for you