Comments on Bloorb: Our Trip Back in Time

Your experience in the first class is exactly why ...

2009-07-21T18:44:18.363-07:00

Your experience in the first class is exactly why I didn't sign up for the class offered at our hospital. That was about the same experience a good friend had when she went. She said the other parents made it even more painful - the first question asked was, "What does the placenta smell like?" Ick.

I would totally go to class with you . . .

Good mindset to have. A lot of the experience is o...

2009-07-20T05:39:14.550-07:00

Good mindset to have. A lot of the experience is out of your control (ok most of it in my case). And hey, we missed our child birth classes and we made it through.

Although, I wish you would have been in mine if I went to them. I hear they are a little lame.

Well you know how I felt about my childbirth class...

2009-07-19T09:10:46.871-07:00

Well you know how I felt about my childbirth class. Kumbaya and incense. We discussed lotus birth (where you leave the placenta attached until it "decides" to fall off, yum the dog would love that), orgasmic birth (ya right, that sounds like someone's marketing idea for natural childbirth). I actually got in a spat with the leader about OB's and their relative evil-ness.
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I love your attitude- yes, it's good to know what ...

2009-07-18T18:34:21.057-07:00

I love your attitude- yes, it's good to know what ~could~ happen, but what ~is~ going to happen is pretty much out of your hands!

Our classes were attached to our hospital & were pretty much informationally useless- as in we already knew everything they told us. The only good part was during the simulated labor we were handed clothespins to pin on painful parts of our body to

I am going to the hosptial because that is where t...

2009-07-18T17:01:44.672-07:00

I am going to the hosptial because that is where the drugs are.

We take our classes in September. I can hardly wait. . .

Too bad the instructor didn't do a better job of s...

2009-07-18T10:16:09.834-07:00

Too bad the instructor didn't do a better job of setting the tone for the class...and laughing along with you and the other parents to lighten it up.

Yes, giving birth can be stressful, but it's a wonderful experience too.

I applaud your comment about letting the people who know what to do, help you through it. My midwife and nurses were caring, funny and very human

We felt pretty much the same way about our prenata...

2009-07-17T16:49:55.172-07:00

We felt pretty much the same way about our prenatal education classes. Kind of goofy and not that much more info than you could get from reading a book or two or poking around online. In particular the ones about breastfeeding were USELESS-- they were all about how wonderful breastfeeding is (duh), rather than about how it works and what to do when you encounter a problem. But the baby care

You MUST watch The Business of Being Born!

2009-07-17T13:56:19.341-07:00

You MUST watch The Business of Being Born!

Oh, I so want to be in your class! I have a powerf...

2009-07-17T13:31:36.830-07:00

Oh, I so want to be in your class! I have a powerful need to be among MY people the vast majority of the time, and I have a feeling that prenatal classes are going to be one of the times when feeling out of step with everyone else is going to be really uncomfortable.

Still chuckling at your man ripping the whiskey bottle out of your hands and calling it parenting. Awesome!

I'd have a ball in that class with you...but, I'm ...

2009-07-17T12:32:57.672-07:00

I'd have a ball in that class with you...but, I'm afraid my sarcasm might get us kicked out...LOL.

That makes sense to me! Thank goodness at least y...

2009-07-17T10:34:16.035-07:00

That makes sense to me! Thank goodness at least you're there to breathe some life into that class :)

This is exactly why we went "off the grid" for mor...

2009-07-17T10:14:59.542-07:00

This is exactly why we went "off the grid" for more private classes. I have no idea where or through who your doing your classes but we ended up paying a fair bit more for classes that weren't attached to a hospital or college or government agency. And it paid off. We only had 5 other couples in our class and they were a pretty fun group. Husbando and I find humour in everything and

I SO wish I could be a classmate of yours. We woul...

2009-07-17T09:32:25.094-07:00

I SO wish I could be a classmate of yours. We would totally transform that class.

;-)

I had similar deadbeat/no humor people in my class...

2009-07-16T21:38:52.004-07:00

I had similar deadbeat/no humor people in my classes too.

Like, nobody laughed when the instructor showed us a "birthing bar" and I said, "you mean a birthing bar is not a cocktail cart that comes around after the baby is born???" or when the instructor asked what a "good" reason would be for being induced and I said, "if you're due close to