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Jason and I completed our labor and birth education classes today. The course required us to attend two Saturday morning sessions, where each session was 4 hours long. I have to admit, I felt a bit better after the first class than I did after today’s class. Today’s class talked about epidurals, episiotomies, Cesarian sections, forceps deliveries, vacuum evacuation, etc. Interestingly, it seems that many people I know love epidurals, but nurses (like the one we met during our hospital tour and the one who taught the class) really “encourage” natural childbirth. Hmmm…. I really liked the class because I now feel more educated about the whole process. But I would have preferred a more equally distributed discussion on natural vs. epidural vs. other medications. For example, they showed us a brief video of three women giving birth without any pain medication. That is nice, but it is hardly representative of reality! As many of you know me well, it really isn’t productive to try to convince me to do something by saying the same thing over and over again without telling me the whole story. I just might interpret that as being pushy, and just for giggles, I might do the opposite out of spite. As this is a bit too important for such rash behavior, I will try to contain my knee-jerk reaction and make informed decisions about the whole thing…right after I talk to my doctor (who by the way, is an absolute gem — I just love her b/c she is really calm and nice, provides info, and is never pushy about anything).
After class, Jason and I went to do more fun things like take care of the crib (Thanks Dad & Val!), look at baby clothes (trying to pick out a take home outfit), and looking at lamps for the baby room (Pottery Barn Kids has some pretty cool stuff!). I know I have to think seriously about the labor stuff and make some decisions, but not today! After all that fun and some much needed Dairy Queen (gotta love the oreo blizzards), we went home and took a nap. The baby’s room is mostly planned, even if the implementation is nowhere near complete. Everything is on order though (except the valence).
Oh, and did I mention that my new car is on order too?? Apparently a four-door, standard transmission, Honda Civic Si in Fiji Blue Pearl is just never going to just magically appear on a lot, so we ordered one. It should arrive in a couple of weeks – I can’t wait!
