Daddy's Take on Birthing Class.

Its a good thing! For sure. I hate speaking infront of people i dont know. I hated it in elementary school, I hated it in middle school, and i surely hated it in high school. For whatever reason, at the beginning of the class, i knew the 'teacher' (who is really a RN / midwife) was going to be calling on all the 'dads to be' in the class to make complete fools out of themselves. (i guess with a little girl on the way, i better get used to that) So she (the teacher) held up a pamphlet and asked if everyone had this. Now, i know i had one, but i didnt get it out because i had already 'briefly' looked over it, but Cas looks over at me and says, "i think its in that book". (nicks thought) "Crap". So i relucantly pulled out this pamphlet on 'Pre Term Labor' and as the dad infront of me is reading the first line (he got the easy one), the teacher looked at me and asked if i could read #2.

The Big Number Two...i knew it...and i couldnt do a thing about it. (time to soak up some pride, bow my head, and read it) "Look to see if there is vaginal discharge or bloody discharge from the vagina" It is pronounced VA-ginal ... but look at me, I threw down a 'VAGINA-uh-al Discharge'. needless to say, daddy was a little embarresed at this point. But i knew, in the back on my mind, with the exception of one maybe two guys, they all would have said "Vagina-uh-al" instead of VA-ginal.

Oh well...maybe i can embaress myself again next week!

Our first birthing class!

About three months ago I signed up for classes at Arrowhead Hospital, (Where I will be delivering Makayla) to help Nick and I get familiar with the hospital policies as well as have a chance to learn more and ask questions. Well on 06/17/08 Nick and I headed to our class after work. I must tell you that I am not a night person at all anymore, I need to be in bed by 9:00 and I pass out pretty quick... Class started at 6:30 and didn't end until 9:30pm so I was pretty exhausted by the time we got home at 10:00. None the less though the class went pretty well. We watched a video on c-sections and one on epidurals/natural birth. The teacher then asked who was going to be getting an epidural of course in the words of baby mama I said that'd be me! I have no shame in admitting that I would prefer my labor to be a beautiful occasion not one of torture. Other than that we just discussed random topics in regards to possible complications, the equiptment they use and some breathing techniques. I guess the highlight of the night was when the nurse looked at Nick to read #2 of our brochure on pre-term labor signs and this is what he had to say in a room of 30 other people... "Vaginal discharge or bloody discharge from the vagina." Of course Nick not only is not a speaker so he was already embarassed but he also read the word vaginal wrong. He said vagina + ul in other words he didn't make the a sound correctly so all the ladies were giggling. I think I may have seen him turn a little red at that point. I was really impressed though with our first class and am excited about the upcoming 4 more to go. I will give you updates on how they go once a week. Our next one should be interesting they are showing us labor positions and pregnancy excersizes which the guys have to do too. Wow I should bring a video camera for that!