Bella, it sounds like her sister doesn't want to be upstaged OR feel like doing much for her sister! I'm sorry you copped that. Just do what you can and see if you can get some other friends on board and bypass the sister? I hear you on the early 30s! That's when I got teary.
Mixed up with DPs behaviour is the attitude that birth is ordinary. I think he's getting mixed up with 'normal' and throwing 'ordinary' in so that he doesn't have to fuss over me...he's done that twice before. I watched a bit of the DVD and his face does not reflect 'ordinary' right after birth, but he reverts to it easily enough :/
My parents didn't stay tonight! Small mercies! They had someone call to arrange to stay with them so they just dropped in for enough time to work the kids up, put them to bed a bit later than I wanted and then go back home! I sound ungrateful, but late pregnancy is not a time I want them around for longer than necessary, particularly my mum.
Anyway, it's more than bedtime
Have a great weekend, all!!