At our Bradley class last night a couple from the previous class came to discuss their birth. They brought their week and half old infant. I guess I understand why everyone is baby crazy because my desire to have my own baby shot through the roof when I saw that little cutie patootie.
I had another dream about my birth last night. Since we made it through all the genetic tests and I've started to feel the baby move, all my dreams have been super positive. In this dream I only pushed for 15 minutes (ha!) and I had a baby girl. The date was also June 1st (which is impossible based on my due date).
Even though I had a girl in my dream I didn't wake up thinking I'm going to have a girl. I've had dreams where I've had boys too. A study was done at Johns Hopkins where they asked women if they were having a boy or a girl. There are all sorts of signs that people use to try to predict the sex: nausea, acne, sex drive and some really hippy-dippy methods. But the study found that the only thing that was statistically significant were women's dreams and feelings about what the sex was. They were right 70% of the time! I personally am not leaning one way or the other.
We practiced pushing positions last night. Even though I help women push I had never tried to do it myself. There was a surprising amount of abdominal pressure in some of those positions which makes me incredibly nervous, as my belly is not as big as it is going to get. The two people in the class that have had babies before did say that at the time of delivery, pushing feels so good that any small discomforts, like abdominal pressure, don't register. I hope that's true!
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