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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Childbirth Class

We had our first class on Monday night. The way I see it you can end up with two types of childbirth educators...the sacred miracle of life "isn't childbirth beautiful" type or the practical "this baby's coming whether you're ready or not" type. We're lucky because ours falls more into the second category.

There were nine couples in our class. Out of those nine couples, only one other couple has chosen to not find out the baby's sex. It's funny because later in the class when she asked who was planning a natural childbirth only two out of the nine couples were planning one (we're not one of them).

Next week we will be talking about natural childbirth. The week after that we will discuss "medical interventions". I'm not sure what the topic is of the fourth and final class.

The class was much better (and less corny) than I expected. One thing that I was reminded of during the class is how we need to have our car seat purchased and installed BEFORE the baby is born. I am going to try to get that done in the next two weeks.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Marianna,

I had you completely natural, but it wasn't much of a choice. Fifteen minutes after your Dad and I arrived at the hospital you were born. You were nearly born in the car. Your oldest sister was in the bag seat of the car and I was in the front. She kept telling me... "stop pushing Mom... you are going to have that baby in the car.

Mom