a day of learning and preparing...hee hee whoooooo!

Jordan and I spent the day at the hospital today.......learning all about childbirth and labor from 9-5! It made for a long day but I'm happy they offer the Saturday Seminar classes because we didn't want to do four Monday nights from 6:30-9:00pm after having a long day of work already! It made for a long day being at the hospital all day long and having information constantly thrown at us but we definitely learned a lot and I'm starting to feel more prepared about labor and our hospital experience! We saw some videos of birth, some of which were just animations and then we saw the real deal, and while they were helpful, it made Jordan and I both feel kind of grossed out by the whole thing! They passed around a plastic tray that had raised circles on it that showed the progression of the cervix opening up to 10cm and let me just say, that it is not normal to just have a hole of that size form on your body! Wow! But then I kept looking at it and was freaking out to Jordan saying, "that's not big enough! that's not normal! what is happening to me and how am I going to survive this?!!" It's safe to say that two of my biggest fears about labor and delivery are having an emergency c-section or hemorrhaging and bleeding out then dying on the table. I know, I knoooow....I'm being a crazy person but they are legitimate fears and both possibilities which makes it even scarier! All in all, the class was definitely verrrry educational, very helpful, and made us start to feel prepared for what lies ahead of us for when D-Day (delivery-day!) comes! We left with a helpful book and lots of techniques that hopefully we don't forget come the big day to meet our little Peanut!