CHILD BIRTHING CLASS
Knowledge is Power ..or is it?
Andrew and I went to our first of three (three hour) classes last night. We opted to take the class in Casa Grande so that it would be closer to home. There were several people there with Sept. due dates and a few Oct. and Nov. ones.
The instructor had our coaches introduce us and tell our due dates, doctors and gender of the baby. There was a mother there who said she was there to make sure her daughter had a better experience than she did, because she was on bed rest for the last 3 months and it was such a terrible experience that she only had one child. The instructor also said that with her 3rd child that she too was on bedrest for 2 months and that was her last child as well. Very motivating! There was another mother with her daughter who was pregnant who said she had twins and was shipped out to a better facility to handle the delivery.
Then the teacher did a good job of explaining every part of the birth in great detail. We watched a movie of the 3-d inside-version of the birth and then an actual childbirth. It was very ....interesting. My favorite line in the movie was when the mother was going through lots and lots of pain, in active labor, during her delivery and said inbetween contractions, that she is going to quit! I had to laugh, is that an option! A girl from my old singles ward was there with her husband as well, aparently the Chandler classes were full and so they had to drive to Casa Grande for class. The movie ended and the instrutor asked asked a stone silent class if they had any questions, the girl I know piped up for humors sake and broke the deadly silence with something like "How can we undo this?" The class laughed. The instructor said "There's only one way out of this from here girls." Dads in the room made some comments that they were sure glad they weren't women, I think at that point every women in the room would have eagery chipped in for scientific research to have their husbands roll in the delivery and their roll in it irrevocably reversed!
Andrew was great through the whole thing, we even went through the drive-through and got some Sonic soda's before going. He joked that this would be the best 3 hours of our marriage as I'm sure he was just excited about going as I was, but we both thought it would be benifical and informative and he was really being positive about the whole thing. However, during the first half of class the room became very stuffy for me, I got really warm and felt claustrophobic, soon my random nausia set in and that combined with viewing an actual birth about did me in. I glanced over at my devoted birth coach to discover that Andrew was happily re-writing my delivery manual - adding what he later refered to as "his own expert advice" like "give father massages" and "bring _____ for father." He looked up at me expecting a chuckle, but all I could do not to loose it was stare stone-faced back and turn my head trying not to loose dinner... Poor guy, he was trying to make it all enjoyable and I was so out of it. Not to mension that the instructor had acronyms like T.A.C.O. and was nibbling on dinner during the movie which I could smell a mile away, all of which didn't help with the nausia. Finally we got a break and I made it to the restroom just in time...
Andrew was awesome, he did the breathing techniques better than everyone in the class and even reminded the instructor what she was doing a few times during class. I made another fun discovery during the exercise and relaxation portion of class, aparently I'm really out of shape. The relaxation exercises were uncomfortable for the most part and I kept thinking that if these uncomfortable exercisees were to make the pain easier to handle, that I must be having to go through a LOT of pain for it to actually help! Yikes! I did however really enjoy the hypnotic-like mental relaxation exercises. I was surprised how relaxed I became and actually had a hard time standing up, I was numb all over. Overall I'm glad I went, I got a text from Andrew this morning saying that it wasn't the best 3 hours of our marriage as afore hoped, LOL for but we are hoping the next class is more empowering! Overall I was hoping to leave this class with more confidence, and to feel more in control of what was going to happen as the saying goes, "knowledge is power," but I find that I left feeling more apprehensive than before I went. I'm leaning towards another saying, "ignorance is bliss!" The class got out 5 minutes after it was said to end, we sleepily got our things and prepared to leave. "Our next class" the instructor announced before we left, "is on c-sections!"
Andrew and I went to our first of three (three hour) classes last night. We opted to take the class in Casa Grande so that it would be closer to home. There were several people there with Sept. due dates and a few Oct. and Nov. ones.
The instructor had our coaches introduce us and tell our due dates, doctors and gender of the baby. There was a mother there who said she was there to make sure her daughter had a better experience than she did, because she was on bed rest for the last 3 months and it was such a terrible experience that she only had one child. The instructor also said that with her 3rd child that she too was on bedrest for 2 months and that was her last child as well. Very motivating! There was another mother with her daughter who was pregnant who said she had twins and was shipped out to a better facility to handle the delivery.
Then the teacher did a good job of explaining every part of the birth in great detail. We watched a movie of the 3-d inside-version of the birth and then an actual childbirth. It was very ....interesting. My favorite line in the movie was when the mother was going through lots and lots of pain, in active labor, during her delivery and said inbetween contractions, that she is going to quit! I had to laugh, is that an option! A girl from my old singles ward was there with her husband as well, aparently the Chandler classes were full and so they had to drive to Casa Grande for class. The movie ended and the instrutor asked asked a stone silent class if they had any questions, the girl I know piped up for humors sake and broke the deadly silence with something like "How can we undo this?" The class laughed. The instructor said "There's only one way out of this from here girls." Dads in the room made some comments that they were sure glad they weren't women, I think at that point every women in the room would have eagery chipped in for scientific research to have their husbands roll in the delivery and their roll in it irrevocably reversed!
Andrew was great through the whole thing, we even went through the drive-through and got some Sonic soda's before going. He joked that this would be the best 3 hours of our marriage as I'm sure he was just excited about going as I was, but we both thought it would be benifical and informative and he was really being positive about the whole thing. However, during the first half of class the room became very stuffy for me, I got really warm and felt claustrophobic, soon my random nausia set in and that combined with viewing an actual birth about did me in. I glanced over at my devoted birth coach to discover that Andrew was happily re-writing my delivery manual - adding what he later refered to as "his own expert advice" like "give father massages" and "bring _____ for father." He looked up at me expecting a chuckle, but all I could do not to loose it was stare stone-faced back and turn my head trying not to loose dinner... Poor guy, he was trying to make it all enjoyable and I was so out of it. Not to mension that the instructor had acronyms like T.A.C.O. and was nibbling on dinner during the movie which I could smell a mile away, all of which didn't help with the nausia. Finally we got a break and I made it to the restroom just in time...
Andrew was awesome, he did the breathing techniques better than everyone in the class and even reminded the instructor what she was doing a few times during class. I made another fun discovery during the exercise and relaxation portion of class, aparently I'm really out of shape. The relaxation exercises were uncomfortable for the most part and I kept thinking that if these uncomfortable exercisees were to make the pain easier to handle, that I must be having to go through a LOT of pain for it to actually help! Yikes! I did however really enjoy the hypnotic-like mental relaxation exercises. I was surprised how relaxed I became and actually had a hard time standing up, I was numb all over. Overall I'm glad I went, I got a text from Andrew this morning saying that it wasn't the best 3 hours of our marriage as afore hoped, LOL for but we are hoping the next class is more empowering! Overall I was hoping to leave this class with more confidence, and to feel more in control of what was going to happen as the saying goes, "knowledge is power," but I find that I left feeling more apprehensive than before I went. I'm leaning towards another saying, "ignorance is bliss!" The class got out 5 minutes after it was said to end, we sleepily got our things and prepared to leave. "Our next class" the instructor announced before we left, "is on c-sections!"
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