Our first parenting class

Jamie and I have officially started training to become parents! That's right, there are training courses for this stuff...and it's free. Naturally, we were all over that.

So our first class was Tuesday evening and was entitled "Baby Basics". Lots of people asked me what I was supposed to learn at this class before we went. THE BASICS, people. That's what I expected. And apparently I don't even know what the basics are...because my head was spinning when we left. I believe Jamie used the words "scare tactics" when telling me what he thought of the class.

Here is a picture of Jamie that I took during the break. This was before the scare tactics, but after some pretty disgusting cleaning techniques. I wish I had a picture of him right after they showed a giant photo of baby's first poo would look like. Don't worry, I can sum it up in words: Sheer Terror.

Long story short here is what we learned.

1. It's probably good we aren't having a boy because those little buggers have some pretty specific/scary bathing and diapering MUSTS. I won't get into the specifics, but if you have a boy, you know what I'm referring to.
2. Diaper changing will be the easy part. For me. Jamie wants no part of that, haha...
3. We are not good at swaddling and will therefore be registering for the blankets that basically swaddle your baby for you. Trust me, we practiced on plastic dolls...and they were not impressed.
4. There are 5 miracle methods to getting your baby to sleep, and one of those methods is holding them like a football. If you are reading this and have seen this done or did this with your child, please let us know. We are not convinced.
5. Their poo will probably make Jamie vomit.
6. SIDS prevention, which really, really scared us. Obviously.
7. Last but not least, we learned that we want/need to be good parents and so we need to start cramming for this baby. I'm pretty sure Jamie has already bought and started reading some kind of baby book.

Oh, and surprisingly there was nothing that scared us enough to not still be out of our minds excited for our little girl to arrive. So that's good. December is too far away...especially since we are pretty much waiting on the best present ever.

Our next class is in just over 2 weeks and is entitled "Breastfeeding Essentials". I'm pretty sure the hubs is going to love this one...so I'll try to take more photos...