Delivery with a child

Soo I’m expecting again after 10 years ( welp ) unplanned……. My daughter really wants to be In the room. I keep telling her she doesn’t and it might be too much for her as she gets squirmy with watching needles, or blood in movies etc. I’ve found a few educational videos online to show her what it looks like to give birth and all the stuff that comes out with baby and after. She still insists on being In the room. Has anyone gone through this with their child with this much of an age gap? What did you do? If you allowed them, how did it go?

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I have really big gaps and I did a home water birth and allowed my kids to be present. My son is 15 and my daughter was 10 at the time.
She seemed to do really well and was quite helpful. It really opened her eyes to the beauty and the pain of giving life.

Sounds traumatizing tbh 🫣 even I don’t want to be in my own delivery room lol My hospital actually doesn’t allow children in the delivery room. Only once you’ve been moved to your postpartum suite is when they said children are allowed.

That’s great you’ve been getting to prep her though! 👏🏾 just in case.

My eldest was 8 when her sister was born at home and she loved watching it and being there. Shes 10 now and had my 3rd 6 weeks ago and she asked to be there again unfortunately there were no on call midwives so I had to go into to hospital instead

I watched my little sister be born when I was 16. And honestly it was really traumatic.

My 15 year old wanted to be present and it was a very valuable experience for us as a family. Gave her a great appreciation for things. You can always include her during early labor and as things ramp up if it gets scary for her and you can't focus well with her there have s trusted adult to remove her until after the birth if that's what's needed.

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