Postpartum visitors

Specifically, how to avoid them. I'm going to be exhausted and probably mostly naked and bleeding profusely from my nethers; I had already decided that nobody on my side that knows where I live or has a big mouth is going to know the baby is here until I damn well feel like it.

Unfortunately, my husband feels that he must tell his family immediately, and news travels fast. He told me that they will be waiting at the house. No way in HELL am I coming home to a bunch of people at my house!! I told him I don't want that. And he just said he can't really do anything about it. He thinks that if he doesn't tell them the moment baby is born they will hate him. I don't understand why.

What on earth do I do? He thinks I'm being cruel by not wanting my family to know the second our child is born. But frankly, I'll want peace and quiet. I'm not social. I hate entertaining people. And my mom especially will overstay her welcome, guaranteed. But now I have to think about his, too? I'm going to hide in my room and he can talk to them or something, because I won't have the energy. Emotional or physical. :(

PS: I'm giving birth at a birthing center, not a hospital. You don't stay for more than a few hours after birth, so unlike in a hospital, I won't have nurses and rules enforced by the hospital to keep people at bay. If he tells them "we're home!" Then people will literally being showing up the SAME DAY I give birth.