Sharing your due date, and news that you're in labour

[Shanti]

I've told people our baby is due end of January, early February (being our first, probably due beginning Feb!) if they ask, i do tell them 26th Jan. I'm pretty sure of my dates too.

I'm going to turn my phone off when i go into labour and DH can look after it until after the birth when we turn it on when ready to.

If I go into labour in the middle of the night, we're not going to tell anyone and just head to hospital. If i go into labour at a reasonable hour, we are then going to call both parents and strictly say to them "we are on our way to hospital everything is just great and when we have some news we will ring you. Please don't visit us as we don't want visitors waiting around and please don't call us"

We're lucky that none of our friends or family live near us anyway!! PIL's live 1hr away they are the closest. so we shouldnt have anyone coming down anyway.