and again it was quite good fun!
It was 2 hours long. Spent about half an hour talking about c-sections and looking at some photos.
She also had photos of the diff hospitals and birth centres in our area which was nice as we havent had a chance yet to do the tour of our hospital.
Then, we did 24 hours in the life of a newborn baby. That was an eye opener!
The leader had a doll that weighs about 4.5 pounds and is in proportion.. like a proper baby. We had to pass it around each other without letting the head flop etc. Was surprisingly heavy for 4.5 pounds (its apparently the weight of the average baby at 36 weeks in pregnancy). So need to add another 3 pounds to it for the average UK birth weight.
We had to pull photos of babies out of a bag (pics of them sleeping, crying, happy, looking bored etc) and decide depending on the time of day/night what you would do with the baby.
For the last ten mins of the class, we had to get into our favourite massage positions from the last class. She turned out all the lights and had colour changing globes dotted around the floor.
So I sat on a chair, facing the back and OH sat on a chair behind me massaging my lower back. We all sat and watched the colour changing globes while the leader talked us through positive images of being at home in the comfort of our our surroundings coping with contractions.
It was so lovely!. Could have fallen asleep lol
We have our ladies only session tomorrow morning which discusses recovering from a birth.
It was 2 hours long. Spent about half an hour talking about c-sections and looking at some photos.
She also had photos of the diff hospitals and birth centres in our area which was nice as we havent had a chance yet to do the tour of our hospital.
Then, we did 24 hours in the life of a newborn baby. That was an eye opener!
The leader had a doll that weighs about 4.5 pounds and is in proportion.. like a proper baby. We had to pass it around each other without letting the head flop etc. Was surprisingly heavy for 4.5 pounds (its apparently the weight of the average baby at 36 weeks in pregnancy). So need to add another 3 pounds to it for the average UK birth weight.
We had to pull photos of babies out of a bag (pics of them sleeping, crying, happy, looking bored etc) and decide depending on the time of day/night what you would do with the baby.
For the last ten mins of the class, we had to get into our favourite massage positions from the last class. She turned out all the lights and had colour changing globes dotted around the floor.
So I sat on a chair, facing the back and OH sat on a chair behind me massaging my lower back. We all sat and watched the colour changing globes while the leader talked us through positive images of being at home in the comfort of our our surroundings coping with contractions.
It was so lovely!. Could have fallen asleep lol
We have our ladies only session tomorrow morning which discusses recovering from a birth.
I start mine on Monday - looks like I'm going to be late though as I have a consultants appointment first 
good starte eh
