Tag: prepared childbirth

Classes on classes on classes

We may have been a little overeager in our signing up for classes once we arrived in Chapel Hill. We signed up for Prepared Childbirth which was a 4 week, 3 hours every Sunday class. Then there was the hospital tour, a two hour ‘class’ on a weeknight which LW had to fly home early

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Do we need a doula?

I read about Doulas in What to Expect When You’re Expecting and thought it sounded kind of nice. Then we learned exponentially more about what doulas actually do in our Prepared Childbirth class. After discussing and agreeing that we both thought having extra support during delivery would be a good idea, we asked our Prepared

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Prepared Childbirth

We signed up for a 12-hour, 4-week prepared childbirth course once we got settled in Chapel Hill. The course is held at the hospital where we’ll be welcoming our baby boy. It was a small class, with only 6 couples. We figured we’d learn a lot in the class, and we definitely did. As always,

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24 Week Update

I had my 24 week appointment this week and got to hear our sweet boy’s heartbeat again. I also got to meet another one of the doctors that we’ll be seeing throughout the pregnancy. Here in CH, we’ll only have 3 doctors, whereas in Charlotte, I had about 12 that I would have rotated through.

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