I'd say no way! I've even said that to my own mother coming and "helping" - I know it will be her asking me where XYZ is in the kitchen and grumping if I don't "appreciate" what she's doing all the time. She's like that enough now!

I've told my mum that while DH is off work then I'd rather she didn't come, as we want some special time with the baby, but it would mean so much if she could visit (and she wants to stay in a hotel, not with family or especially US!) when DH is back at work and I may need some help. Hopefully then I won't need too much help and she can just help to do some cooking or whatever and we can take Liebling our for a walk or something - SiL is giving us her never-used Baby Bjorn so I won't have to stress with mum wanting to play with/push the baby. OK, it sounds mean, but MY baby, not my mum's.

Apparently mum and sis are looking forward to shouting at the bump when they next see me. Anyone else wonder why I don't want them there at first? And I can't take 15 cups of coffee a day, once I've had the baby my mum won't make me decaff and she drinks so much coffee... ah well, it might be nice... just I'd say give your MiL a false EDD so she can't come over until the baby's 6 years old. Incidentally, I threatened my sister with that when she said she wanted to be there for the birth.