My DH and I made the decision to have no-one else in the delivery suite for our first but we will have one of my sisters join us for the next one. We were in the delivery suite for 15 hours and DH was really tired and couldn't rub my back every contraction as he was trying to have a snooze in between. Hopefully next time it won't be so long but at least we will have someone else to takes turns to rub my back

My sister just had her second baby and my mum was in town waiting for his arrival so they felt obliged to invite her to the delivery suite (she was in there for my other sister's two babies). My sisters fiance invited my mum so she knew he was in control and what he said goes. She tried it on a few times but soon realised that DP wasn't going anywhere.

Maybe you could tell your mum that you just want DP in the delivery suite with you for your first time and you could invite her in for the next one. I had NO idea what giving birth was going to be like so was glad it was just me and DH.