Prenatal Course and Tasmania

2 weeks ago James and I went to our first pre-natal course. These will hopefully be very helpful and informative and hopefully not too much information overload. They are at the SAN with a nice midwife who is very passionate about all the information, particularly breastfeeding. There are 7 other couples with us. They all seem lovely and most are also due in June. One couple is quite outspoken and have to make a comment about everything. It got on James and my nerves a bit but I think that's their way of dealing with their nerves about having a baby.

We went through all the technical words which we may hear when we are in hospital. The boys went and spoke about how they think they can be a good support person from now to when in labour. They came back with some very good ideas - James had some which were helpful and I like them. She told us that the boys need to do vacuuming for the next 6 months (which all us girls liked!) because it isn't good for our backs. She is a keeper. The girls spoke about the irritations of being pregnant. From the list that she gave us, I noticed that I have had a pretty smooth run (and hopefully that will continue!). Some of the other girls have had a lot of the symptoms, while I have only had a couple of them and they have been very minor.

At the end of the session James and I were chatting and we both said that we found it very helpful. We were a bit disappointed that we missed out on the next week - especially as she was going to go through all the natural steps to use during labour, avoiding medications. She gave us a bunch of notes and on Tuesday at my next dr appointment, I'm going to ask Rhonda, the midwife, if James and I can have a time to sit down with her to go through the notes, like she said she would be happy to.

Tasmania was a great trip! I love traveling and experiencing new and old places with James. This trip was different to other holidays we have gone on as it was only partly planned as neither of us really knew what to expect. I was more emotional this trip which got on my nerves quite a bit - I am over crying over silly things! Fortunately James is very patient with me at the moment and unbelievably understanding about why I'm crying - even at times when I don't get why I'm upset! We loved walking around the Tahune Airwalk and the Huon Valley around it. It was wonderful to have a full day of just walking and enjoying creation! We had some good chats about the future and different thoughts about parenting which I'm sure will increase over the coming weeks. In Launceston I had a few troubles with over heating and having a smaller lung capacity. We were staying up the top of a hill which was a nice 5 minute walk to the city centre (not a problem!) but the walk back was up hill and a steep uphill. The temperature wasn't very cold, like I had planned it to be, so after walking up the hill, I was over heating and feeling claustrophobic like, needing to get out of the layers I was wearing. When we got back to the b&b I could strip back to my singlet top to cool down but it wasn't a very fun time. This was around the 1st time that I have experienced the overheating and getting puffed easily, not so fun.

There were some funny moments too. Bubble was quite active at different times during the holiday. It decided in the last couple of days that it would be fun to push up against my ribs and try to stretch out lots. A lot of people asked me how far along I was and were surprised to hear that I only have 10 more weeks to go. A lot of people commented about how compact I am and how little my bump is for 30 weeks. James and I were surprised at how many people asked about Bubble, as it hasn't really happened with strangers at home. When we were at Tasmazia there was a space were there were 3 ladders that you could climb up. I laughed lots when 1 of the ladders definitely wasn't made for pregnant people. I only just fit through and that was with squeezing through the space. Good fun!

I like this photo of us.

30 weeks.

I only just fit to make it down the ladder!

I did enjoy walking lots though, and feeling good about exercising. I'm hoping that I keep the motivation to walk now that we're back home. The walk back to the car after the afl today was a good start to that motivation!

Tomorrow I go back to school with my lovely Year 1s. I'm finding it hard to get very motivated this term as I can see the end is very close. But I keep overlooking all that I need to do! Teach, program, reports, notes for the next teacher, new student starting tomorrow, etc. But it is crazy that I only have 6 more weeks of teaching, 29 more days! It really doesn't sound like much!