It was dh only with my older two, partly because we were not close enough to family for anyone else to be a possibility. With my youngest (who will be 1 on Sunday!), I really wanted it to just be me & dh again, but I knew that if he was working, MIL would be driving me to the hospital and I felt like I really couldn't ask her to leave. She's actually a great MIL and we get along fine, I just thought I wanted it to just be us again. Anyway, that's exactly what happened, and I ended up being really glad she was there. DH is great, but he's not super assertive, and MIL is, which was helpful a few times (dh can and would ask for what I needed, but it was nice to leave the heavy lifting to her ;) ). Also, she's a nurse, so she's more comfortable in the hospital setting and knows what to ask, and she was quicker on her feet than dh when it was suddenly time to push NOW and we needed to get the nurses back in the room. It ended up being like having a doula, I think. And in the end, I was really glad she had been able to be there. It meant a lot to her, and she had given a lot of time and energy to help us during a difficult pregnancy, so I'm glad it was something we were able to "give" her in return. :)