As of Tuesday we've started down the road of baby having classes. Just like I could train to be about anything else, I now qualify to train for having a baby. As if the 'Childbirth Educator' knew of my cynicism in advance, in the first class we watched a video about childbirth through the ages--with voice over video of art showing birth. Sculptures, paintings, illustrations, video from 1940s AMA ads for twilight sleep deliveries...
That's when things got disturbing. Nothing like seeing a 1940s birth with forceps to wake up a crowd. It was at about this point that they started weaving in more birth video clips and Ajay made some sort of 'Ack' or 'Bleck'-type noise and said something about the babies coming out looking greasy. That's when I realized that this reality check is why they tell you to bring your spouse. Seeing guppies being born as the extent of his qualifications for helping with birth, this class might be even more important for him than me.
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The journey from two-ness to three-ness ... and what happens after that.
