Class reunion

To prepare for Caterpillar Girl's birth, we participated in a 12-week long Bradley Method class. The Bradley Method, also known as Husband-Coached Childbirth, emphasizes "Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby." During the class, we discussed nutrition, relaxation techniques for natural births, reasons that we might need hospital intervention methods, the stages of childbirth, postpartum preparation, coaching...pretty much everything we could imagine for childbirth. Our class took place on Sunday mornings for two and a half hours with 4 other couples. Our instructors Melissa and Scott Bradley were knowledgeable, experienced (four births of their own), and caring--and I think CG's home water birth was thanks, in part, to this amazing class. After the last baby born was three-months old, a reunion was planned. Only 2 couples besides us made it to the reunion, but it was still fun. We told our birth stories, introduced our babies, and talked about our new lives, which, as can be seen in the picture, CG did not find all that stimulating.