For those of you that are sick of reading about baby stuff- sorry that is just what is going on right now. I keep trying to get BJ to do a post about the deals he gets on a weekly basis cause some of them are freakin awesome. But he is staying so busy with work and dealing with my emotional rollercoaster that he just hasn't had time yet :) poor guy. I mean girls have it bad with the aches and pains that come with pregnancy, but husbands have it bad too. They have to deal with the achy onry pregnany woman! Shout out for the patient husbands out there!

SOOO.....yesterday was week 3 in our pregnancy class. We have had 6 couples in our class but we just lost a couple this week. We just found out that they lost their baby. Mom was just over 20 weeks and delivered a still born baby. It just broke my heart. :( I can't even imagine what they are going through right now but we have definitely been praying and thinking a lot about them.

On to a lighter note, the focus this week was on the different stages of labor and epidurals. Our teacher had a doll, pelvis, fabric placenta, and an umbilical cord that she used to show us the process of delivery. It was freakin awesome. What cool props. We were planning on leaving early so BJ could go play basketball but BJ was so facinated with the tools and the epidural kit that we ended up not leaving early at all. They showed us forceps, internal monitor, vacumn extraction cup, and a few other random things. We then watched a video of a women getting an epidural. BJ eyes got huge when he saw how long the needle was. It was cute. The teacher then talked about the process of delivering the placenta which brought up a pretty big discussion of placenta's that I was NOT expecting. WARNING- if you have a weak stomach avoid the rest of this paragraph :)A couple from China asked where they put the placenta's after it is delivered and wondered if she could keep her's. The teacher didn't look at all suprised. She said, "We send it to the incinerator to be burned but you are more than welcome to ask for your placenta to take home with you." This couple then told us how when she was younger her mother went to the hospital and asked for a placenta, took it home and cooked it up for her and forced her to eat it. A placenta has a lot of nutrients and her mother told her that she was weak and needed to eat it. She compared it to the taste of Liver. The teacher then said people use their placenta's all the time to help grow trees and plants. They bury the placenta and then put the tree on top of it. I mean it totally makes sense that it would help things grow because it is growing our baby right now, they are full of nutrients but ugh that is gross to eat it! I about lost in when the teacher and this lady were talking about how to cook it up and comparing it to liver and onions. NO THANK YOU!
Can't wait to see what next weeks adventure has in store....