OK, so The Video was not that bad.

Only one real vagina shot, and it was pretty obscured (thankfully). The movie was more about how labour is different for every woman, can go totally against your wishes, plans and expectations, but that’s alright.

I have to admit to tearing up as each baby was born, as I’m sure almost all the women in the room did. Even Eric admitted to being weepy. All of us giggled, however, during the last birth when the woman yelled out a high-pitched "Ow!" while pushing.

It seemed like such an understatement, yet so fitting for what birth must feel like.

We learned more breathing techniques and labour positions which was fun and very useful (although squatting, at least frontwards? Um, no.).

While the instructor repeatedly told us that what feels good now may not feel good when the baby is "cork screwing out of your body," Eric and I discovered several things that will more than likely happen while Baby Girl is being born:

-I will not handle labour well, as I am a Wimp and my body has issues with narcotics (the Ajax emergency department told me I had the highest tolerance for pain medications they’d ever seen — that’ll be great for childbirth!)

-Eric will be told off repeatedly and will not be allowed in my face

-The structured parts of being a labour coach (timing, definitions, numbers) appeal very much to his engineering side

-Hopefully these big Foster hips will finally pay off

As of January 11: 44 days left

Possibly related posts:

1. Thinking: labour
2. Silent what?!
3. Labour prep with Val. And lots and lots of drugs.
4. Let’s hope ma lumps aren’t genetic
5. Ajax labour and delivery closing