2nd Childbirth class

Last night was our second childbirth class. It was a little more exciting than the first week. We got to take our tour of the birthing center. Someone had just had a baby and it was so cool to see all of the family celebrating in the hallway. I thought about how that will be us soon!! Everytime a baby is born at the hospital they play the rockabye baby lullaby throughout the whole hospital.

The labor and delivery room was very nice and pretty large. Everything will happen in this room. It has a little bed type thing for dads, a private bath with a shower, cd player, tv, etc. They said they are pretty flexible about allowing as many people in as you want. They said as long as there is room for the doctor! I really think I will want people in to distract me during the labor part. However, during the actual delivery I only want Brandon in there.

We learned about the hospital's security measures. All three of us will be tagged as soon as Alayna is born. She will have a band put around her ankle which will function as an alarm. If she is taken out of the birthing center area, alarms will sound and the hospital will lock down.

The funniest part of last night was when Brandon was learning massage and touch relaxation techniques. The nurse said that sometimes the woman doesn't want to be touched but will accept a hand or foot massage. She gave all of the men a glob of lotion. Unfortunately, Brandon's portion was more than one glob. He did the massage on my hands and then we both had an overwhelming amount of lotion. It was hilarious because it wasn't absorbing on either one of us and we just kept slipping away from each other. I started laughing and couldn't stop. Finally after a few minutes the nurse came around with napkins so we could wipe the lotion off. However, even after wiping our hands off, Brandon still couldn't help me up off the floor because they were still so slippery.