- If there is one thing that WifeGeeding loves about being pregnant, it’s the ability to place a cup or bowl on her stomach. In this case, she’s eating graham crackers with milk.
- Most of our weekend was spent at a “Prepared Childbirth” class at the hospital we plan on delivering at. Overall it was very helpful and answered a lot of questions covering vaginal births, c-sections, epidurals, breastfeeding, and just about everything else that deals with the delivery of a baby and came complete with a tour of all the facilities.
- Several doctors also spoke and answered our questions. From what I remember, a delivery
doc, anesthesiologist, and a pediatrician spoke. - I don’t think I heard the word “vagina” or its variations so much in my life in such a short timespan.
- When the class gather all of us sat in chairs that were positioned in a horseshoe type fashion and as we were going through introductions and each couple stated what they were having, a boy or a girl. Turns out, without any prior planning as we got to choose our own seats, all the expecting boy-couples sat on one side and all the expecting girl-couples sat directly opposite, so the room was divided equally.
- It’s interesting to see how people dress coming to these things. For instance, there was this one diva you came in overly dressed when everyone else was wearing shorts, jeans, and athletic wear. When it came time asking who was considering umbilical cord blood blanking, they were the only couple.
- One question that I thought was a little silly for some of the couples to ask was “Is this your first?” because if you already had kids, you really didn’t need the class. I guess I could see reasons why, but the class is designed for first time parents.
- Of all the couples in the room, only one did not have a husband or male partner, but instead had her mother attend. From the looks of it, and I could be wrong, but it looks like she is going to be a young single mother.
- That mother was quite interesting. She sounded like she smoked a pack of cigarettes and hour and walked in with a matching Harley-Davidson pillow and blanket. For instance there was this one part of class that each couple was given a bag at random, and as went around one-by-one pulling the item out of the bag and discussed how we might use that item for post-delivery stuff. During that time, HarleyMom pulled out a cold compressed and said, word for word, “Oh, this is what you need to put on your taint when you get home from the hospital.”
- You can tell most of the room was trying to keep from laughing, except for WifeGeeding, who actually had to excuse herself from the room because she was laughing so hard.
- The instructor, who was a bit older, had a puzzled look on her face, and said, “Taint . . . I don’t think I ever heard that word before.” She even used the word a few times, as if she didn’t want HarleyMom to feel uncomfortable blurting it out.
- HarleyMom continued to use that word about four more times that day to the chagrin of her daughter.
- It was all reminiscent of this scene in the movie Baby Mama.
- One thing I really didn’t know, or even considered to think about, was that the mamma actually poos during delivery but more than likely never realizes it. Isn’t nature beautiful.
- I noticed there is not as much hand-sanitizer as there use to be, I guess that’s because it’s no longer flu season and the swine flu is pretty much controlled.
- We finally registered for some baby stuff.
- I watched the first episode of the HBO mini-series The Pacific. Darn fine stuff.
- I also caught Celebrity Apprentice as well, and I admit, I like it.
- Man, I had some crazy Glenn Beck comments the other day.
- Peter Graves, I loved you in Airplane!. RIP.
- Agassi and Samprass played in a celebrity tournament with Nadal and Federer as partners. The players are mic’d, and things get a bit competitive and testy. YouTube
- The education department is buying 27 shotguns
- Clips like this makes me want to find stuff around the house and take it to Antique Road Show. I love her reaction when she gets the grand total . . . damn.
- Speaking of education, here’s an update on what the conservative Texas education board decided on curriculum.
- I think my wife wants this Mario shelf
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