Certainly not unreasonable at all to ask no one to visit for a couple of days. I wanted to do that, but in the end I was so buggered that I actually didnt have the energy to tell people to go away. I regreted it for ages, and sometmes I am still annoyed by the fact that the hospital let my sister in to wait outside my room in the labour ward while I was still giving birth, and then the IL's were waiting at the post natal ward when I got up there even after I told them not to come in.

I didnt klike so many people just showing up unannounced because I was tired, and I refused to sleep while they were there because I wanted to be with my baby and I didnt want them to take away my baby, iykwim?

Next time I think I will be more strict with a no visiting rule.