Home birth with sibling.. advice

I recently had a home birth but went into labour overnight so my eldest slept through it! We had my MIL come over in the morning whilst we cleaned up and I was stitched to give her breakfast and keep her upstairs until we were ready for her to meet her sister. Tbh we didn’t say much as we had planned that she wouldn’t be there if I had gone into labour during the day. Once I had given birth we explained that the midwives had come and helped mummy to have a baby then they tidied up and went home 🙈 do you have any photos from your first homebirth? I showed these to my eldest just incase she was there for a small amount of time. Hope all goes well! X

thank you so much for sharing your experience.. it has made me feel a bit more at ease. The original plan was for my eldest to go to MIL but her house renovations have been delayed so it’s likely my eldest will be here especially in the day time. I am going to ask my MIL to try and keep her out and about or if home distracted/occupied. Although my eldest has already said she wants to be here and involved so we will see 😂🙈 x

My daughter was 3.5 at my homebirth and we'd read books together to prepare her for it, and talked to her about noises mummy might make, and little jobs she can do like passing mummy her water, how she can say "good job mummy" etc if she wants to, or how we'll have a new toy for her to play with if she wants to do that instead.... She ended up sleeping through the whole thing 😄 (and I wasn't quiet either!!)

thank you so much for sharing. Sounds like some good ideas especially giving her jobs to do, she loves having responsibilities and she wants to be involved if she can so this will help. She has been role playing a lot with her baby dolls recently so I’ve been using that as a chance to have conversations with her about what it might be like. Only thing I haven’t done yet is to read some books about home birth with her. Haven’t got long left but might try and order one or two before baby comes xx thanks again xx

Hello Baby https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845071107?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Baby Is Coming: A Homebirth Story https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1739234103?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

There's A House Inside My Mummy https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1841210684?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

These were the three that we read 🙂

thank you so much xx