Grandma Reinforcements!

My mom has plans to attend my cousin's wedding on the East Coast on October 10th, so I was a bit concerned if she'd be able to take time off in September to come help us with baby. Much to my relief, she responded that she's ready, willing and able to be here whenever we need/want her and for as long as we want her to hang around. Work can replace her, I can't.

She melts my heart- I can only dream of being half as amazing of a mother as she is!

It was so interesting when I broached the subject with my husband of my mom coming up to help with our newborn- I got an unexpected reaction from him. I know he hates to ask for help, but I view this as totally different. His initial reaction was that this is something we should be able to handle on our own and having another person around would impede us doing things our way and building our own routine. I tried to explain that with all the hormones I may be half insane after giving birth and just having my mom there for emotional support would be HUGE. Of course he is a huge support, too, but sometimes a girl just needs her mama. Plus, it would be nice to have someone around who has actually done some of this before! From what I hear, there are many things that aren't as intuitive as one would assume. There is a lot of information available on the internet, but sifting through all of the bad information trying to find good information isn't as quick and easy as it should be. After talking to HIS mom and she happened to make the comment "I assume your wife's mom will be coming up to help after the birth?" -my husband was taken aback a bit, he was like "oh, so this is like a normal thing?" Now he seems much more open to it :-) Men! :-P