With the upcoming birth of our baby Ryan and I have been preparing by taking some classes that the hospital offers. It was when my niece was born that I realized soon I was going to have a newborn to take care of only I knew absolutely NOTHING about babies. so i looked into the classes that were offered and signed up for all of them that applied to us.
so far we have completed the CPR and first aid for infants- that class was good except that i think they really try to scare you and basically call 911 if anything happens was the message we got. We did learn how to do CPR though. Hopefully nothing we learned in that class we ever have to use.
we then took a 4 week childbirth class. There were 8 other couples in that. we toured the birthing center at the hospital, learned all about whats going to happen, they showed lots of videos on birthing that i chose not to watch, learned about breathing for pain control, pain meds, c-sections, shaking baby syndrome- NOTE to all - shaking a baby violently can do serious damage to their brain and could kill them. Soooo basically I learned WAY too much and now i am terrified. that class made it all too real. Ryan has taken on the 'coach' role and he is very serious about it - its kinda cute.
Last night i went to a breastfeeding class- which I thought was actually very informative and didnt totally gross me out.
We have one last class on newborn care to take next weekend and then she can come- we will be educated :)
2 comments:
Did you make Ryan go to the breastfeeding class? I made david, he was the only male there, but I was so glad he went, he was actually a help! Make sure to teach Ryan all of it! Good luck to you guys and the babe, you guys will do fine....
anna
ps. I owe $ to someone still, right?
Ryan was suppose to go- but a golf lesson interferred. I figured he might have been the only male there anyways- but turns out i was the only one there ALONE... oh well.
oh yeah you can give the $5 to becky- she can give it to my dad- he won
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