I have made a decision

of course you should do whatever you want to do, and dont let anyone bully you. but you might find that you are on such a high over babys arrival that you want to tell people... and thats ok too

but again, it is up to YOU to decide when to tell people and when you want visitors!

I done that lol.. but not on purpose, it sucked because i didnt want to tll anyone before i had her because i thought id want to rest and stare at her.. but she slept for like 5 hours and i couldnt and i was staring at her and right then i wanted to text people because i was so excited and proud.. but couldnt. And the phone i did take with me got stolen when i was at the hospital.

Good for you Megan - we did the same, when we had paris absolutely no-one even knew i had had a show a few days before, they didn't know i was at the hospital or anything. They got a call at lunchtime to say baby was here. lol, Poor mikes mum, had gone on her lunch break and we couldn't get her on her cell so she had to wait till she got back from lunchbreak   We did it this way so that no-one would be annoying ringing or bugging us during labour. I didn't want mum to know in case she turned up at the hospital like she did with all my other sisters.

Good on ya!! It's totally up to you what you want to do and if people don't like it you're right....too bad!

We just did the same as mum2paris above. My mum was most put out that we hadn't let her know I was in labour and that we hadn't told her her granddaughter was born until 12 hours after. I explained that we couldn't have phones on in hospital and while we were at the hospital after she was born we had other things to do - eg get stitches and get to know our baby. We came straight home and all went to sleep, and phoned people once she we woke up.

Anyway, mum's reaction bummed me out - so if you do go with not telling people, you might want to prepare for a bit of a backlash, or tell your family what your intentions are.

I had intended to let her know earlier, but once in labour I didn't feel like calling her. I felt like we informed her afterwards as soon as was realistic.

Good on you. I kinda got away with that as I had Andrew at 1am so I didn't think people would be happy being woken up but we did wake our parents up.

Yeah good on ya!  

Next time we'll tell everyone (family included) AFTER I've left the birthing suite - because my entire family barged into the room.  Sure, she was born by then, but I was still nakey under that sheet, in shock, shaking, bloody, un-showered, un-fed and only just all stitched up.  And in they came with cameras and thinking my sis thinking she was being hilarous by playing with the hospital gears when the midwife wasn't there. 

i rang my best friend (well one of them,the other was with me) and her dad (who knew i had been in labour and was most likely ringing with news about the baby ) just said "oh, shes gone to bed" it was such a letdown, i felt like saying "well go wake her up you jerk! do you realise what ive just been through?and what ive now got in my arms?!!" but instead i rang the only person i knew would be up, which was a friend of mine who was at her sisters 21st (hence why she was up) and she was very excited....and also very drunk, so not quite the same,and THEN i text another friend and she text back saying congratulations and that her bf had just proposed.

Next time i may just do what your planning to megangrace!

I was bored to tears in hospital and couldn't sleep so I was texting people at 9.30pm to tell them she had arrived. I don't think I stopped my text conversations till about 2am!

we are lucky as both our parents live at least a 2 hour drive away. so if they do come to visit least it will give us a bit of time.