Great Expectations???

Yesterday, Denver and I participated in the quintessential baby class at Northwestern, "Great Expectations."  It's basically a 9-5 marathon of all things Labor & Delivery.  I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting that day, but the class wasn't great. Our teacher talked a mile a minute and when she would ask "any questions?" she was on to the next point before you could even think of raising your hand.

I'd say we learned a few key things though.

1)  The hospital gives you (and baby) tons of free stuff before you leave.  Undies, ibuprofen, a fun travel bag, half shirts, diapers, and on and on and on.  Who knew???  I love free stuff.

2)  The delivery rooms & the post-partum rooms are tricked out.  Can you say flat screen TV, Bose stereo system, and hardwood floors?  The place is ridiculous.

3)  There is no way of knowing how to predict any element of labor and delivery.

Denver and I kept chuckling because in all of these videos we watched during the class, the stages of labor were explained ad nauseam and in the most ambiguous method possible. For each stage they would give this huge window of time like- 'this could take anywhere from 1 hour to 12 hours.'  And the best part was all of the different possible side effects of every possible drug or pain medication- 'you could have side effect a, b, c, or d, or none of the above or all of the above or in rare cases something not on this list.'  

At least we had a good laugh.