This weekend was pretty laid back. Saturday, we spent several hours going through Cheryl's closet and drawers, making piles of stuff to give to charity or store in NJ, thereby freeing up a few more cubic feet for all the incoming baby stuff. We actually made some pretty good progress.
Today we went to six hours of baby classes at a hospital here in Brooklyn. We had an infant childcare class in the morning and a breastfeeding class in the afternoon. We did learn several useful things. For example, Cheryl and I both got to try out some advanced baby handling techniques (along with some deranged facial expressions):
Half of the class time was spent watching terrifying videotapes from the 80's featuring extreme close-ups of doodie diapers, babies spitting up, rotting umbilical cords, circumcision scabs, manually expressed lactation, meconium, and (to borrow from Animal House) more than two dozen other individual acts of childcare so profoundly disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.
Aside from that, everything has been wonderful these last few days. Avery is now the size of a pineapple, and we are really excited to meet her in seven weeks! And of course we're both looking forward to a fun Thanksgiving later this week at Elissa & Jon's house. We'll post more during the long holiday weekend.
Happy New Year
11 months ago
2 comments:
I can't imagine that you ate very well after those classes with such pleasant topics and videos. I'm so glad you shared some of those concepts with your blog readers! Seriously though- I can't wait until Avery arrives either! I can't believe it's just 7 weeks!!
I'm very impressed with the "baby holding" positions both of you demonstrated in the photos. Those are the normal positions that you two were held in as babys so it's understandable! You'll be amazing parents. Love, Stefan/Dad
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