Birthing & Breastfeeding Class

Ben and I had a full week of baby activities. Last Sunday we went to a breastfeeding class and on Wednesday we took a tour of the hospital. Then this past Saturday we took a birthing class. Let me tell you - it was a whole lot of baby madness happening.

The birthing class was informative but I have to say - the videos were not good. It didn't help that they were filmed in the 80's and all the people had bad hair. In some ways it was good for me to SEE some of this stuff but mostly - I didn't like them. At one point I looked around the room cause I was wondering what other mama's were thinking and they all had the same horrified look on their face. - which made me giggle. And then I got some looks. Bad Karen.

The breastfeeding class was also informative but what I got from it was this. Breastfeeding is best for baby and the process is different for each person. So there really isn't one right way and it just depends on your boob and the baby's mouth.

For the hospital tour, they showed us the labor room and postpartum recovery room. They told us where we could park and we received a 10% coupon to use at the baby store for a nursing bra. The nursing bra's were like $60! That's $30 a boob. Crazy. They didn't look super fancy. I figure I could just go to Target and cut holes in the nipple area and save myself $30.

So after all of this - all I can think of are the words or terms I learned about and wish they did not exist. Just the WORD makes me cringe...

1. Episiotomy
2. Engorgement
3. Leaking (this is never a good word. EVER. Nothing ever is good when it is described as leaking.)
4. Cracked Nipples
5. Tearing
6. Contractions

If you want to know more about these words - you can google them. But I'll warn you, it ain't pretty. Any moms out there have other words they want to share and then never speak of again?