).Thankfully, there were no imbeciles in our group either (no premature sympathy for the unborn child required!), but there was 1 bloke who, in the opinion of the entire class bar his partner, had a ripping sense of humor and made it pretty enjoyable. The funniest part was his poor partner, every time he cracked a joke or made a comment, would just roll the eyes, even shifting her back towards him. Pregnancy isnt funny to some
His best gag was when we were assigned to groups, blokes in 1 room and girls in the other, and the exercise being for the blokes to formulate ideas on what we should be doing for our ladies pre and post labour, and the girls were assigned ideas on what they thought we should be doing. We all got back together and this bloke gets up and rattles off things like massages, sugar, fluids, encouragement, music, television, to light hearted humour such as small goods and ridding the mother in law (
), when straight as an arrow, he looked at the instructor and said "but I couldnt think of anything that the lads need to do" Once again, his mrs saw nothing funny about it, but certainly brought some colour to the class!
Seeing the labour ward and the maternity ward made it pretty real, and the bathing of the new born was something I was very thankful I watched, particularly as our instructor began to rattle off little tips when the little one cries. Obviously each baby is going to be different but handy thought for the vault I can assure you.
