An Emotional Prenatal Class

Last night Dennard and myself had our second prenatal class :-) Yay!!!!!

The night didn't start off so good though; lol. The air conditioning went in my car and I had to drive home in the smouldering heat from work. By the time I reached home, I was soaked right through and my feet and hands were swollen from the heat.

I opened the front door, balancing multiple bags in hand, and dropped everything on the floor and burst into tears. I said to Dennard "Never again am I driving in that car without a/c!!".  LOL
Fortunately after a nice long, cold shower, I was able to re-group myself and come back to being 'me' again. lol 

We were a bit late getting to prenatal class as Dennard forgot to take the 'Queen Street' exit. His mind is so programed to take us to church every time we are on the highway, lol, he was naturally driving us to church. lol

After getting off at the next exit and turning back around, we finally made it to class; 20mins late.
It was ok though as there were two other couples who walked in late after us :-) hee hee

We discussed good and bad foods to eat during pregnancy and certain things to avoid and stay away from. Most things I already knew, but it was still fun hearing peoples questions and answers.
The class ended with a 'birthing video' which was something I knew we'd watch at some point in time during these classes.

I've seen a few birthing videos to date; none have bothered me or scared me out of delivery; thank goodness-lol. I am surprisingly quite calm about the idea of the whole 'birthing experiance'. Many people have asked me if I am 'scared to death' with the thought of labour and delivery, but for some reason, I haven't felt any anxiety or worry over it. I guess I just see it as 'it's going to happen. how bad it will be, I don't know, so I am not going to think or worry about it!'. lol

Anyhow, as the video was playing, every couple in the room was glued to the screen. There were a few chuckles, laughs, wow's and  sounds of 'ughhh'  here and there, mainly from the men of course-lol.

There were a few parts in the video where I was fighting back tears. (I've cried through every birthing video I've seen-lol) To watch the amazing experience of birth unfold before my eyes stirs something up in my heart and moves me to tears every time. I don't see child birth as an 'ew' experience, but a beautiful one.  To think that one human being could bring another human being into this world is incredible!! And people claim there is no God....Ha!

Dennard leaned over a few times during the video and said "are you crying?".  Each time he asked, I just looked at him, teared eyed and smiled. He smiled right back and nudged his face against mine :-)

Come the end of the movie where the baby was born, the dad said on the video "I was so proud to be a daddy, but I was more proud to be the husband of Susan". At that point, the gentle stream of tears rolling down my cheeks turn into a river!!! LOL

And of course, just when the 'river was flowing', my instructor turned the lights back on. Dennard got a chuckle out of this as I tried to speedily fan my tears away with a flyer. lol

Hidden behind Dennard's shoulder, I peeked my head out to see if any of the other mother's were crying-NOPE!! It was just me!! lol  I was so embarrassed. One of the mother's connected her eyes with mine and I saw her mouth "Awhhhhh!!". Embarrassed, I flashed a smile and went back to hiding behind Dennard's shoulder. lol

After class was done, Dennard and I laughed the whole way to the car. I couldn't believe that I was the ONLY ONE who was moved by the video!!! lol 

Dennard held my hand in the car and said "Sweets...the reason why it touched you so much is because having a baby means a lot to you and because you have a deeper love and appreciation for the whole thing!".

What a guy eh!! Who could ask for a better, more sweeter husband :-) Sorry ladies....he's mine!!! hee hee

Ps. My feet are still a little swollen a bit from yesterday's drive home!!! lol The swelling isn't bad, it just feels a bit tight and uncomfortable. Just glad my feet dont look like 'Shreak's'-LOL