Hospital Tour!

We went to our final night of Prepared Childbirth tonight. We learned about all the weird issues sometimes newborns have, a brief overview of breastfeeding, and toured the Labor and Delivery floor at the hospital. Honestly, it wasn't as nice as I expected, but it is still pretty nice I guess. Both the birthing rooms and mother baby rooms are HUGE! The birthing rooms all have jacuzzi tubs in them, refrigerator, dvd players, stereo, etc. Apparently you stay in there until about an hour after you deliver, depending on how mom and baby are doing. Then you go to the (private) mother baby room, which also has all of the above, but not all of them have tubs I guess. There are 15 birthing rooms I think they said, and then they have some other rooms that can be used as birthing rooms if needed. Worst case scenario they have an agreement with another one of the hospitals downtown so they can send people over there. But our instructor said we really don't have to worry about all the rooms being full. Now the waiting room on the other hand, it was seriously packed. When I peeked in I totally got tears in my eyes thinking about my friends and family anxiously awaiting updates on the grand entrance of baby Haynes! The rules at the hospital are really strict right now and they only allow 2 people in the birthing room with you, not including your "coach" (or husband in my case). And the sign said only immediate family members over age 18 can visit at all. So I'm going to have to clarify that a bit at our pre-delivery visit. My BFF/"photographer" is often mistaken for my sister, so maybe it won't be an issue ;)

So now we are almost done with our classes. We've taken Prepared Childbirth, Natural Childbirth, Breastfeeding Basics, and Child/Infant CPR. In a couple of weeks we have Baby Care and then we're done! We are getting SO close! 34 weeks tomorrow... 3 more weeks and I'll officially be allowed to go into labor and they won't try to stop it! Yikes! I dreamed last night that I was at the hospital. I thought I was in labor for some reason even though I wasn't feeling the contractions. And of course they checked me and sent me home. I think maybe I dreamed that because I've been having a few Braxton Hicks contractions - especially lately at work I have been really stressed out and my whole uterus feels like a giant boulder. It's a good opportunity to practice my breathing though.

Seth is defying gravity right now. I feel like he is curled up in a ball, floating at the very top of my uterus. He's been like that for about a week and a half now. I can't say I'm excited really for him to drop, because it's nice to not have to run to the bathroom every 5 minutes. But I am anxious to know that his little head is pointing down, that will make me feel a little better. Anyway, I better head off to bed, I have an early meeting tomorrow. Here's my 33 week pictures, better late than never!