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Big baby milestone today – we had our first Lamaze class. The first thing I learned was that it’s really important to eat before class – it starts at 7 and I foolishly drove there straight from work without grabbing anything to eat.

The class has about ten couples in it, and it felt a little weird sitting in a room filled with people, all of whom were going to have babies around the same time as our own. Our instructor, a former nurse, gave an overview of the course, and then broke us up into four teams, two of women, two of men. We were then instructed to come up with lists of the five things we liked and five things we disliked about pregnancy.