Healthy Birth Choices - Calgary

When we found out we were pregnant and Savanah brought up the idea of attending birth classes I didn’t want to go. I thought they were stupid and wouldn’t teach me anything I didn’t already know. Women have babies’ everyday and do just fine, we have all seen it in the movies what else is… there to know right? After many talks arguments and discussions Savanah finally made me realize maybe I did have something to learn, but I was not doing 9 weeks of this stuff. We decided the weekend express class would be the better alternative and she was going to sign us up. I was having second thoughts when I saw how expensive it was going to be but Savanah insisted that that was going rate and was going to be worth it, I bit my tongue and let her do what she wanted. When we went for the first class I wasn’t excited to sit for the 8-hour day that was planned, not to mention losing out on my Saturday. When Sue started talking about all of the information we would learn I could not believe how much there was to go over not to mention how naive I was about the amount I didn’t know! I realize now if we never took the class guaranteed we would have been pressured into doing a lot of things at the hospital we didn’t want because we wouldn’t have any information about it. There was things sue taught us that if I hadn’t learned I would have been freaking out; There was a point during the labor Savanah tuned into the weirdest position, before the class I would have been telling her to lay back down on her back, but because of the class I knew it was her body doing what it had to do to get the baby out.  During the labor and birth I felt like I knew exactly what was happening and I felt educated enough to make decisions regarding our child and my wives’ care. After the first class I found myself talking about birth and experiences with anyone that would talk about it with me, I couldn’t wait to go back. When my neighbor found out they were expecting they were talking about doing the same class, but the husband had the same opinion I did before taking the class I told him I couldn’t believe how much I learned and urged him to take the class it was one of the best decisions we made during our pregnancy. After our son was born January 2013 I was amazed by Savanah and how amazing she did during our birth experience. With out the class our ideal birth would not have been attainable. Whenever we have friends that get pregnant we urge them to take the class because of the amazing birth experience we had. Read more “Declan”