Am I being selfish? (Long post)

Brittney

My husband and I are disagreeing on the topic of having visitors at the hospital when our baby is born. (Due Oct. 11th)

Let me start out by explaining that I have a daughter from a previous relationship (she is 9 years old). I was extremely lucky and had a quick labor with her, however, as soon as she was born and clean, her father's friends and family (and some of my family) invited themselves into my room to see her. She was born at 1:25pm and our last visitor left around 10pm, and that was the first time I got to spend any alone time with her to bond.

Because of this, I want to request that no one visits us in the hospital, in fact, I am wanting to keep our time in the hospital a complete secret until we get our baby girl home and settled in. I have already expressed this with my family, and everyone has been extremely understanding. My husband, on the other hand, thinks I'm being extremely selfish and that I'm just trying to keep his family away from our baby, which simply is not true at all. While his parents have been extremely overbearing throughout my pregnancy, they have done so much for us and I have been nothing but grateful and understanding of how excited they are about their first biological grandchild.

Now, here is why he feels the way he does; my MIL has honestly driven me nuts since the day we told her we were expecting, and there have been days where her constant texting completely stressed me out. While I never said anything to her, I would mention it to my husband when I felt like she was starting to be overbearing. She automatically assumed she would be in the delivery room, which was unsettling to both my husband and I, but thankfully he told her that was not the case. Even when my MIL is overstepping, I've been nothing but kind to her because like I said, I know she's just excited.

If you're still reading, thank you. Now here's my question: am I being selfish? It doesn't seem fair to only invite his family after I've already told my family that I don't want visitors. What should I do?