Prenatal class

By the time Dr. B mentioned taking prenatal classes, we had missed the January sessions. We couldn't have made most of them anyway, so we figured we would just take the February ones, except the next classes aren't being offered until March. That is a little late for us, so we set up a one-on-one class, which was really nice of the hospital to do.

Thursday we showed up at 5 p.m. for our class. We were sent to room 221, and started with our preadmit stuff before getting into the book the nurse gave us. The Gift of Motherhood is very thorough, and we really only spent about an hour and a half going through what the nurse thought we should definitely see or know about. We learned about old placentas, the stages of labor, some medical jargon, the various happy pills available, and breathing. Q was reassured when the nurse kept mentioning that the doctor will want to rush things but the nurses will get him out of the room and take care of things their way.

The nurse left us with a video and suggested which parts we should watch. Before we got into that though, we headed down the hall to visit a coworker of Q's who had just had a beautiful little girl on Monday.

We watched about an hour of the video, and were finished. We are glad we didn't do all four sessions or spend a whole Saturday doing the class.