On the road to becoming well informed...

Jason and I had our first baby class last night and I must say, I thought it would invoke extra anxiety, but it did just the opposite! Of course we were imagining an older lady trying to tell us that heavy breathing would alleviate some pain while showing videos from the 1970's with women not minding the graphic nature of where the camera is focusing! Not at all. The videos were very up to date, not overly graphic - and the animations were very very helpful actually! I never wondered about what a contraction was or what caused them and what they caused the baby to do, but I found out, and was thankful for that! Jason did just fine, there was a modest amount of blood and no needles shown so bonus for him in that aspect.
So, we did have a few giggle attacks, especially when we were supposed to be focusing on our breathing and holding our bellies (Dad's too) to feel where we were expanding and relaxing. I sat on my pillow and breathed in and out to the instructors' counts...and then I look back at jason who is sitting behind me to my left. He is leaned against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest not quite understanding why we were doing what we were doing...or if he did his face was hilarious. I couldn't contain myself after that. I'd get the deep 4-count breath in, but the breath out was interrupted by trying not to laugh too loudly. The only other time was when we practiced using our husbands as support while standing as though we were going through a contraction with back pain. First he started laughing because my chin dug into his shoulder and it was just downhill from there...

Anyway, so we are excited to get through Thanksgiving because that is when we can officially start the count down!

Baby is big - I'm pretty sure that over the weekend we were growing because I literally had no energy - like, I sat down in the shoe section of Macy's just to rest after about 10 minutes of shopping. Of course that means the past few days have been anything but comfortable. Growth = needing more room and the round ligament pain I felt defintely was in line with that!

So, this weekend I'll be in CO visiting Noah. I'm sure I'll have plenty of fun stories about the flying adventures while 32 weeks pregnant as well as pictures of my new little friend!