Getting Ready for Baby

Getting Ready for Baby

With the due date in just accouple of weeks we have been brushing up on ‘what to expect’ during labor & delivery, breastfeeding, and the initial weeks with a newborn.  Here I am in the middle of a study session – surrounded by our Martha Jefferson class materials and books that I read recently.  We finished the last of the classes – child and infant CPR (30 compressions to 2 breaths!) – last week.  Now that the house and the nursery are done it has been nice to spend time relaxing together and preparing for the baby.  Bill has also been really involved in this process and is currently reading ‘Heading Home With Your Newborn’.

Most of the couples in our labor & delivery class, as well as our friends Dean & Melissa and Todd’s friend Erin,  have had their babies recently.  We have enjoyed hearing their stories – one woman delivered in 4 hours and, most recently, a friend who planned for a natural birth at home had a 47 hour labor with two surgeries that ended in a C-section.  We are prepared (well, sort of…) for anything!