Family after delivery?

Question

My fiances family is flying in and staying a week starting two days after my expected due date. I'm curious as to how most of you mom's were feeling a week or couple days after delivery? What are things I shouldn't or won't be able to do? This is all assuming I deliver vaginally and everything goes well of course

Answer

I felt great. We were out running errands all day by day 4

Answer

How many of them are flyin in? Will they be staying with you or at a hotel? Personally I told most of my family from overseas not to visit for at least a month after my daughter will be born.  What I imagine I could do if I had to far exceeds what I would want to do at all for anyone except my baby.  Even my husbands and my needs will be secondary to hers. So not hosting family at all, even parents.

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You'll be able to do your normal day to day things but that doesn't mean you'll want to. The first few days of being a mom I feel are the hardest since it's kind of a shock. For me I couldn't do anything but cry because I got hit with postpartum depression really bad. And I was running on zero sleep because whenever she was sleeping I couldn't since I was so scared of sids. I suggest taking it easy and letting your family bond with her for a little so you can nap. Otherwise you should be good to do anything.

Family after delivery?

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