Ben and I attended the anesthesia lecture on Saturday morning. Wasn’t something I felt I gleaned any info from, as I was already planning on an epidural. Sunday was our all-day Lamaze class. They don’t really cover all that much lamaze anymore. It’s more of a labor/birth class. I did rather like it. It would have been better if I had had more than 8 hours sleep this weekend. There was a couple there who had been in our all-day Infant Care class. The woman in that couple spent 2 hrs at the infant care class asking some of the dumbest questions over and over. She is very much into getting attention. One of her questions was, ‘How early can you take a baby boating?’ Here’s the point. She is due in January, same as I am. Is she planning to go boating with the baby in February? Its pretty damn cold on the water then. I wouldn’t have a new baby out for that long in the cold unneccessarily. Dumb chick.
Some of our friends had expressed an interest in coming by the hospital while we are in labor. After the class, I think I can safely say that is a big, resounding NO! We did get to tour the hospital rooms. The labor/delivery rooms have dvd/vcr players. Perhaps I will watch fellowship while I’m waiting on Rebecca. Hopefully she won’t come too quickly, cause then I would have the doctor’s head blocking my view. The recovery rooms where you stay for 2 days (vaginal) or 4 days (c-section) are pretty crappy, but they have been that way in all the hospitals I have visited friends in. They are boring and plain as crap. I think the idea is that you are supposed to fill them with flowers and balloons and other such stuff.
Concerning the new diet. I don’t think that the dr’s office really was thinking when they made the sample menu copies for patients. My stomach is pretty damn squashed right now. I can’t eat but 2/3 of the amount of food they want me to eat at mealtimes, if I’m lucky. Then snack time is just not enough. I’ve decided to temporarily stick with the food suggestions, just not neccessarily the time frames. At least until my appt on Thurs when I can ask my dr about it. I am checking my blood sugars and they seem to be okay. Oh well.
