Finally we have received our first actual view of this little alien disturbance. She decided to show her face a little for the 3d/4d ultrasound. The excitement is definitely building and we have just attended our birthing class here in Atlanta. This provided me with a much needed dry run of what was going to happen. We did a very interesting exercise with an ice pack for Renee to hold so she could practice on the relaxation and not the feeling of the ice pack in her hand. This let me try to freeze her when the teacher wasn’t looking and to try to cool her body down as she normally hovers around the temperature of the sun. I couldn’t help but think that the class could have been taught with some realism during an actual birth. I think that it’s really important to expose yourself to the random stream of profanities that you haven’t encountered since middle school.
My favorite part was learning the transitions in the phases of labor. More specifically that the women’s face is just as much as indicator as the interval between contractions. This began to scare me as the large portion of labor involves faces that mimic the exorcist. Even further on, the faces change again and really not for the better. In the last phase of labor the eyes were crossed and the cartoon mouth was jagged like a Halloween pumpkin. I turned to Renee and said that my whole life I have been conditioned to run when I see a face like that and now I have to rub its back. Bob Dylan you were right. The times are a changing.
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