With DD1, born at 4:36pm, my dad and Aunty had just been to visit me while I was labouring, went for a coffee and came back to knews that DD1 had arrived so they knew straight away. DH called his parents and sister straight away pretty much and I messaged everyone else and I added in the message what time visiting hours started in the morning so they knew they could come then. So we had my dad, Aunty, PIL, SIL, and one of my closest friends come straight away but I was happy with that. My mum lives 10 hours away so we rang her on the way to labour knowing it would be another day before she arrived.
DD2, born at 2.30am we did not tell anyone until early morning, around 7am I think. Both very different but I enjoyed both ways very much.
DS was born at 11.30pm and we didn't call family till first thing the next day. It took hours to get all stitched and sorted and by then we had been at the hospital for almost 45 hours and just wanted a sleep. We texted our friends around mid morning. Thank goodness visiting hours for family and friends was not until 3pm in the arvo so we had a nice chill out with just DS, dh and I for the first morning.
Dd1 was born at 9.20 pm so we rang grandparents that night, about 11.30pm once I was out of recovery etc and then waited until the next day for everyone else.
Dd2 was born about 3 pm but nobody got told until dd1 was brought into hospital with the grandmothers and had been introduced. Dp wouldn't even tell the grandmothers what the baby was until dd1 had met her. They still get huffy about him making them wait but we wanted dd1 to be the first to know!
DD1 was before Facebook! Lol so we told both parents when we were in labour then my parents live further so I said after 14 hours don't know what's happening but they came in just in case, ended up just on time to wish us well on our way to emergency c-section. Then they came into recovery
Hubby parents came first thing in the morning and we also sent SMS in the morning. I had five solid days of visitors and my naive new mum side of me ignored rest time.
DD2 was a planned c-section then I was knocked out and my gallbladder was removed.
My mum was looking after DD1 and the rule was that DD1 got the news first then parents and patiently waiting good friends
Then to make sure no one Facebooked my news I put photo and stats up of my girl about 7 hours later (I was in surgery knocked out for about 4) I sent everyone out at rest time that time.
This time again DD1 gets the news first followed by immediate family then I Facebook for everyone else.
DD was born at 5:45 pm. I think it was about 7:30 when DH called both sets of parents. When we'd all recovered I called by brother and DH his sister. We put a pic and stats on fb for everyone else, I reckon that was around 9pm.
We didn't have to worry about visitors as my family are 2 hours away and in laws 3 hours. People started trickling in late morning, and everyone was very respectful of us and each other and made sure there weren't too many people there at once.
This time I guess my parents will be looking after DD at our place, as much as I don't want anyone to have to stay with her too long. We'll be leaving it as late as possible so hopefully she won't be without us long, and we'll get her brought right in, depending on the time. Everyone else will have to wait until we've spent time as a family, when we're ready.
With DD1 people knew straight away pretty much as I had been in labour ward for 1day before she was born so there was no hiding what was going on. With DD2 my family didnt know until she was about 10mins old (11am) but DH family knew as he told them my waters broke and as they were 300kms away and it was a friday they decided to take the day of and come down to visit as it was there first grandchild. I didn't know until 5mins after DD2 was born that they were actually at the hospital in the foyer waiting and wanted to come in straight away. Unfortunately I hardly knew them and was pretty young and not very confident and when DH let them come in they didn't have the sense to leave despite the fact I was starkers under a blood covered sheet. I expected them just to poke there head in the door and leave straight away but they didn't. So with DD3 we didn't tell anyone that we were having the baby and it was so lovely to have her all to ourselves and really meet her and enjoy her without other people around. I'll definately be doing that next time. My parents had my other 2kids and as I had PROM they knew I was been admited for antibiotics and been induced the next day. Once we arrived I was febrile and DD heart rate was really high so they spead it along straight away so it was only a few hours later that she was born. It worked out really well and next time I have a baby DD1 is probably old enough to care for her younger siblings for several hours if needed so hopefully no need to tell people until after the baby is born.
Quinn was born at 5.50pm via c section after a 10 hour labour. My hospital does recovery in the room so as soon as I was wheeled back up, DH rang my parents, inlaws and both our siblings. We then sent out a text and posted on fb at about 8pm.
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but we wanted dd1 to be the first to know!
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