Ante-natal class is against the ropes and reeling

So after the third ante-natal class I think I'm going to be OK. Another 2 births and no problems, these showed the mothers taking more strain with the labor and I think all the mothers were more worried than the fathers after seeing these videos.

We also forgot to do our home work, fortunately there is no detention. We were supposed to bring pillows as we are now starting to do breathing exercises and trying different positions. There were spare pillows so we weren't left out of the fun and games.

My theory is that all woman know everything about the breathing for birth. The reason for the practice is that some by strange coincidence all the positions seem to result in the man being perfectly positioned to massage some part of the woman. So while they are "learning to breath" and "finding a good delivery position" the man is like some Egyptian slave catering to Cleopatra's every need and running around massaging whichever part of the body is mentioned or pointed at. All sounds a little suspicious to me!

On the social front we had Alex's baby shower at our place on Saturday. She got lots of loot. The party then continued with the partners joining the woman. A good bring-n-braai and much beer/wine/etc later everyone was very festive. Well, that is except for Alex and Jenny who weren't drinking and probably wandering what the hell was so funny most of the time. Larry was particularly entertaining regaling us of his exploits on the open sea, diesel feet and all!