Friday night, David and I met up at the hospital for our prepared childbirth class. They have a specific class for multiples, so that's where we were! Friday night, after a few icebreaker activities, we practiced some relaxation techniques and watched a birth video with triplets. Everyone in our class was having twins, and most of them were also on their first pregnancy.
Saturday, we came back for day two. We started off by discussing the different methods of childbirth, as well as the different medical interventions. We learned about what the hospital policy is on a lot of different topics. We also talked about things to bring to the hospital for the birth. In the afternoon, we had a visitor: a mom of eight month-old twin boys. She talked about her birth experience and had lots of advice for the hospital and the first few weeks at home.
We ended the day with a tour of the nursery, the labor and delivery rooms, the triage rooms (which is the pre and post room for c-sections), the operating room (we didn't go in there, but we saw where it was), as well as a standard hospital room and finally the NICU. Plano Presbyterian (where the boys will be born) has a Level III NICU, which is the highest level. It makes me feel good that if there are complications with the boys, they will be able to stay at the same hospital as me!
Afterwards, with an armful of booklets and handouts, we headed our exhausted selves out to the car. All in all, it was a good class, very informative, but doing it in one weekend was definitely a beating!
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