what the...

can we talk about how scary labor and delivery classes are! what the hell....

i mean, i really did know what i was getting myself into; i watched my best friend deliver her beautiful daughter. these people just want to scare the crap out of you. it's not like this is high school health class anymore...we aren't trying to discourage pregnancy at this point...we're a little past that. shouldn't we be trying to reassure the mother that yes, she can get through this and you will want to do it again, most likely. nope, not in this class. we are seeing mutant babies being born, watching women deliver at home(who the hell does that anyway), and letting you know anything and everything that could possibly go wrong! maybe i'm just a little extra sensitive to these things right now, since there really isn't that much time left in this pregnancy.

gabe and i just had our second class last night, so it is all a little fresh in the memory. the lady that teaches it is nice enough, a little long winded and looses her train of thought pretty easily, but nice. and i understand that you can't sugar-coat this, but just give me the real version. i'm not looking for the story of the lady that coughed and had her baby, but i am also not looking to hear about the lady that was in labor for 36 hours and her husband stopped talking to her towards the end, or the woman that delivers her own baby in the living room of her home. i want the drugs, just show me the video of the ladies that are doing this in the same fashion that i would like, and then we can talk.

gabe, on the other hand doesn't seem to be worried about the labor so much (why would he be), but more of how the process goes. he wants the video on what to do when the water breaks or i tell him it's time to go. he wants to see where exactly he goes when we get to the hospital, who we talk to, how long it takes to check in, how long before i get some pain relief and become nice again ;) so, i guess between the two of us, we have all of the worrying down that we will ever need.

i'll let you know how next week goes.