We're scheduling away here in San Francisco. Sleep schedule, potential postpartum doula schedules and meals for the parents to be. Monday was Mission Chinese with a guest appearance by James Bond while tonight is some potato and leek soup started on Sunday night along with a side of brussell sprouts swimming in butter.
On the calendar for the 21st, all day long, is newborn and infant care. That's a whole Saturday of somebody telling a wide audience, including Caitrin and Walker, how not to break the baby, while the evening of the 7th and 8th of February is the birthing class.
That's what Baleen's most nervous about. That progesterone we mentioned the other day is doing its thing, widening the birth canal, and Baleen's reminded of it each time her tendons ache, as they do now, she says. What I'm sure the birthing class won't tell us is what her pre-natal yoga instructor did, that birth isn't any harder than extending your arms flat like a table top and holding them there for five minutes. Just when you think you can't hold it any longer, you hold it for another minute. Voila. Happy and healthy baby appears.
On the calendar for the 21st, all day long, is newborn and infant care. That's a whole Saturday of somebody telling a wide audience, including Caitrin and Walker, how not to break the baby, while the evening of the 7th and 8th of February is the birthing class.
That's what Baleen's most nervous about. That progesterone we mentioned the other day is doing its thing, widening the birth canal, and Baleen's reminded of it each time her tendons ache, as they do now, she says. What I'm sure the birthing class won't tell us is what her pre-natal yoga instructor did, that birth isn't any harder than extending your arms flat like a table top and holding them there for five minutes. Just when you think you can't hold it any longer, you hold it for another minute. Voila. Happy and healthy baby appears.
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