Image from Hyperbole and a Half This is what we learned last night in Childbirth Class: there are three ways your labor can go, and they are Pretty Bad, Worse, and Even Worse Than That. Pretty Bad: You can try labor without drugs, and look and sound like the screaming moaners … [Read more...]
And Then There’s the Breastfeeding
Last night's adventure at baby class: a video about breastfeeding. In the video, the women who had just given birth to these little suckers were only briefly shown - at least, their faces were only briefly shown. The rest of the time was focused on their breasts - alone or … [Read more...]
Ambushed
I thought I'd seen it all, but then last night I saw a video clip of a woman delivering a placenta. We were at our first Childbirthing Class, where someone teaches you how to give birth to a child, presumably. Including us there were 10 couples, all very nice people. Two of … [Read more...]