My Mother asked if she could be there, and to be honest I couldn't think of anything worse!!! I only wanted DH there. If I'd still been living in Bris, I probably would have wanted my best buds Ambah and Bec there, but I just couldn't face the prospect of having my mum there. The idea literally made my skin crawl.

Anyway, we promised my parents (who live a few hours away) that we'd notify them as soon as I went into labour, and that DH would meet them out the front of the hospital and give them the keys to our house so they could wait there until Hannah was born, and then they could come and see her once we were all settled after the birth.

They got to the hospital after their drive to Kingaroy, and just decided to tell the hospital staff that they were here to see me - so the staff let them into the room I was in (hooked up to the syntocin, having some pretty intense contractions at the time) and they both just walked in and started talking to me. I couldn't believe it. I felt so vulnerable, invaded, and kinda betrayed. They stayed for ages, and it was all I could do not to scream at them. I felt like crying. I'm sure it affected the progress of my labour. I know I was holding back because I didn't feel that I was emotionally in a safe place to "let go" and just let it all happen. I was so tense. Even after they left (about an hour later) I was stewing about it for the rest of the labour. Something to focus my anger on I guess! Anyhow...we ended up with 19 hours of labour, 9cm dilated, and then and emergency c-section anyway.