Lamaze Class

Well, we took our Lamaze class this past weekend. There were 2 different class time options. One was to do a weekend class starting on a Saturday 9-4 and ending Sunday from 1-5. The other option was a 6 week class on Tuesdays from 7-9. That class wouldn't have started until September 9 though and that would have put it really close to our due date so we did the weekend class. There were 3 other pregnant ladies there. Clint was the only man though. Two of the women brought their mother and the other brought her friend. I felt bad for him but I felt blessed too, to have him there with me. I wish the other women could have had that. We watched 11 different birth stories and one of those was a C - section birth. I wish I didn't see any of those, except the c- section one because the regular birth videos made me more nervous. I already know where the baby is going to come out, and that there is pain and I will survive so why do I need to see someone else going through labor and birth? Just teach me how to breath and get through the pain and tell me what to expect without me watching some dramatic video. That is just my opinion. So besides the videos we learned how to breath when we go through contractions and how to relax ourselves when we are in pain. They made us hold an ice cube in our right hand for 1 minute while distracting us and after that we put another ice cube in the other hand while it was silent. We were supposed to see if it was better to be distracted or quiet. For me, I liked it better while it was quite so I could concentrate on my breathing. We also went over infant CPR, infant care and breastfeeding. We got to tour the OB unit too and see "the birthing bed"! Because I have been reading a lot lately, I already knew a lot of this stuff but it was still good to relearn it. So if you ever get a chance to do a class, regardless of how much you know already, take the class anyway. You never know what else you might learn and it is always good to get a different perspective. We really enjoyed our class and we got a lot of freebies too, like 6 newborn diapers!! That will last us about half of the first day home. One can NEVER have too many diapers!