little feet, big sky

Finally made it back to prenatal yoga this morning. :-) Have been putting it off like a slob, and as I’ve noticed more aches and pains over the past couple of weeks, I realized I had to start doing something about it now before it turns into a colossal problem later.

Overall, it was so worth it, because I met another expecting mom who was planning a homebirth, too! It’s amazing, because out of the entire prenatal class, the instructor had commented privately to me that I was the only homebirth in the class. The others were all planning hospital births, planned medication and even planned inductions. Wow. I always thought yoga would attract the more hippie types, but I guess not! So it was nice to catch up with this random, normal non-hippie woman who was also working on a home birth with midwives & a doula. We chatted for a bit and swapped email addresses to keep in touch. :-)

My local yoga place is adding another prenatal class midweek in the evenings, and I vow to go to that one, too. Two days at week. I’m also planning on getting an elliptical here at home to work out on daily. Hopefully, more exercise will take care of my increasing back tension and will give me more energy. Hopefully!

I’ll be taking a Birthing From Within childbirth class this weekend and I’m really looking forward to it. One of the tenets of the book is a teacher talking about how for their classes, they don’t ask couples to bring pillows, believing that they don’t want couples to be lulled into a false sense of complacency about labor. That feels so right to me, and I hope the class feels the same.

I opted against taking the Bradley method of childbirth classes because given the insane amount of research I’ve already done on pregnancy and childbirth, I didn’t feel like I would be learning anything new. Much to my delight, our midwife agreed with me and recommended the Birthing From Within class.

And IMHO, Lamaze and generic hospital childbirth classes are either a joke or completely counter-intuitive.