Baby Feeding Class and Viewing Options

06.23.08

Poison ivy update - I broke out with a new patch on my arms today. Great...Hopefully, Caroline hasn't gotten it.

We went to breast feeding class at Summerville Medical last night. The good news is that I wasn't the only male. There were other men who obviously understand that it's important to support your pregnant wife. We're a team.
It was a tough 2 hours of not busting out laughing or making funny comments. I learned that as a nurse you can specialize in this field and become a lactation consultant. The only quote I will post on the blog from the lactation consultant is "it's the original fast food". They recommend you breast feed for 1 year...holy crap! I guess we really shouldn't have rolled our eyes and mouthed "Oh, my goodness" at the lady at Babies R Us that was looking at pumps and saying her twins were 9 months and only had three more months to go. I don't think LA is up for that but it does save money and has 2 - 8.5 x 11 pages of benefits listed for the baby and mom.

We actually killed two birds with one stone last night because we got the tour of the maternity part of the hospital. We visited the delivery rooms, post delivery rooms, the surgery room,...etc. It's probably not the red carpet treatment and service we would have gotten at St. Francis but it will be fine. The waiting room on the floor is so small that we had to pay to reserve 4 seats and LA decided that she is going to allow me plus three others to be in the birthing room - nothing like having seats on the front row for this important event. However, it kind of puts us in a bad situation of having to choose and we don't want to do that so we decided to auction those seven spots off to immediate family first. The bidding starts at $50 dollars for the "Being There Package" and $15 for "Almost Was There Package"(Waiting Room). Being there when your grandchild/niece/nephew is being born = priceless. All money will used for the baby's education, unless we have to raid the fund to take a vacation. We will accept bids up until LA's water breaks. For everyone that can't be there when the baby is born but wants to be kept up to date with a detailed account of LA's delivery progress, delivery time, sex, weight, and length, via text messages and email, you can sign up for the "Wish I Was There Package" for $5 to be some of the first to know.