We started our natural childbirth class last Wednesday. It is a 36 hour class. This is a lot of time but giving birth feels to me like something I would rather risk being over-prepared for than under-prepared.
The first 3-hour class session laid the groundwork for working together. The other 4 couples in the class are a lot like us: white, 30-something* professionals who are having their first babies.
Other than introductions and a lot of administrative stuff, the theme of the class was "unlearning" what we have learned about childbirth from the media throughout our lives. We watched a video which showed maybe a hundred birth scenes from tv shows and movies from the past 30+ years.
This video included labor and birth scenes from the Coneheads movie, Junior (where Arnold Schwarzenegger, our illustrious governor, gives birth), and a Star Trek birth where, because the baby has already sprouted its horns in utero they opt for the "fetal transport" and the baby is beamed effortlessly and painlessly onto a table next to the mother.
They say that the technology supporting childbirth has come along way but I still haven't found any hospitals in the area offering a "fetal transport."
*Eric gets credit for still being 29. At least for another 17 days.
The first 3-hour class session laid the groundwork for working together. The other 4 couples in the class are a lot like us: white, 30-something* professionals who are having their first babies.
Other than introductions and a lot of administrative stuff, the theme of the class was "unlearning" what we have learned about childbirth from the media throughout our lives. We watched a video which showed maybe a hundred birth scenes from tv shows and movies from the past 30+ years.
This video included labor and birth scenes from the Coneheads movie, Junior (where Arnold Schwarzenegger, our illustrious governor, gives birth), and a Star Trek birth where, because the baby has already sprouted its horns in utero they opt for the "fetal transport" and the baby is beamed effortlessly and painlessly onto a table next to the mother.
They say that the technology supporting childbirth has come along way but I still haven't found any hospitals in the area offering a "fetal transport."
*Eric gets credit for still being 29. At least for another 17 days.
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