Dr. Bradley I presume?
So Steve and I went to our first birthing class last night. We chose a Bradley Method class. Since I want to do an all natural birth (no drugs, thank you very much) this is pretty much the perfect class. Here's a little backround on Dr. Bradley: He was a obgyn back in the 40's and 50's, probably some 60's too. He was the Doctor that first realized how important it was to have the father/husband in the labor and delivery room. Did you know it used to be illegal for a man to be in the room when his wife was giving birth? Crazy. Didn't become legal till the 70's!!!!! Anyways, major brownie points for Dr. Bradley there. He also made it new practice to have the women walk in early labor (gravity helps the baby into the correct position for birth. walking = faster labor = very good). He also is the Dr. who realized that woman do not need to be knocked out to delivery baby, and in fact- the drugs could be dangerous for both baby and mother (the rate of mother's dying in delivery was very high back then, mostly because of the drugs they used and unnecessary procedures). He started the whole "natural" craze, and its just now really starting to catch on. I'm not going to ramble on why I'm choosing natural. I have nothing against the drugs, I just don't want to use them. My body is made to birth babies. I can deal with the pain. It'll probably suck during labor, but it'll be more than worth it in the end ; )

Anyways, onto the class. So there are a total of 3 couples, my due date is smack in the middle. And i'm by far the biggest chick in the class. The only obvious pregnant one. And the least obvious? She's due more than a month before me! Dude, why am I so huge? Seriously, in the past 2 weeks i've totally freakin popped. like random people are now asking when the baby is due. These two nannies i see often at the park that i take my preschoolers to noticed today, and were all excited for me. Well, at least no one has told me I look way too big for where I am. And actually, all the mom's I've talked to say this is where they suddenly looked pregnant too. And I'm just gonna get bigger.........
So yeah, so far i'm really excited about the class. 2 months, once a week. We'll be so ready for baby when we're done!!!!

And now for another gross fact about pregnancy. My boobs leak. Um, ew? It was just one, and just a little bit, but still- its pretty early for any leakage and i totally freaked out. Steve thought it was hysterical, once again. Thanks Steve. But he made up for it by getting me a prenatal massage (thats tonight). SCORE. i'm ver very very excited about that..................... have a fabulous rest of the week!!!!