BABY CLASS #1

Not surprisingly, K and D have signed up for 5 different classes offered by Women's Hospital. Our first one was Saturday from 9 to 5 (1/2 hour for lunch...we were introduced to the cafeteria food). Thanks heavens the lady doing it was very engaging and entertaining. The class was called Birthing Marvelous Multiples. There were 9 couples who were all expecting twins between Nov and Jan. This is what we learned:

• after watching the videos, K is not sure she wants to have a vaginal birth (no one in the video had an epidural and they looked awful...many were totally naked and K can only assume that the pain was so bad they had to rip off their clothes) and K is not sure she wants to have a C-section (that fluid comes shooting out of the incision like a geyser) K is currently trying to figure out what the other delivery options may be...they seem limited.
• the hospital pretty much insists that you have an epidural if you have twins (twist my arm!) and regardless of the delivery method, the babies will be born in the operating room...so only D and the team of doctors are allowed (sorry everyone else that was just dying to see me give birth!)
• Baby A and Baby B will both be taken to the NICU regardless of how they look because K is diabetic and they have to do some monitoring of their sugar and insulin....good to know so K will not go into an enormous panic on the day of.
• the rooms are TINY!!!