Lots of good suggestions already

Keep in mind that there's two very different things:-

(1) whether it's rude to not want people over the second you've given birth ... or for a couple of weeks after ... (absolutely not!)

(2) whether people will be offended (quite possibly).

Now, as we've seen in other threads, what people find offensive or rude is one thing, what you're responsible for may be another - and what you decide you need to cater for or couch may be different again.

You've been around the block enough times to know all this, but I thought I'd say it anyway ... because we might be facing the same thing in March, and so I'm sort of posting this to myself too ...

While we're all completely entitled to have a while to ourselves, certain people will crack it, and we'll have to decide what we'll do in anticipation of that, to not permanently damage relationships, etc.

"others" are not necessarily as enlightened as those of us here on BB