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What made you laugh at birthing class?

stow2009stow2009 member
in August 2015 Moms
I have a few friends who are also pregnant, but we all took our birthing classes at different times and have really enjoyed swapping funny stories. Here are a few-

1. When going around the room, everyone was asked what they have enjoyed so far about this pregnancy. One new dad-to-be said, "hearing the baby burp"...and he wasn't joking. it was met with lots of murmuring ("CAN YOU hear the baby? Do they even burp? etc.), but the teacher just let it go because he seemed to really enjoy whatever it was he thought he was hearing :)

2. The teacher was talking about ways to move labor along, and she mentioned sex to thin the cervix. One husband raised his hand and asked, "So, where does this happen? Is there like a special room for it?" He thought she meant once in the hospital...lol

3. We had a baby swaddling/comforting practice where the dads went to the front of the room four at a time and swaddled a doll, then tried to comfort it while the nurse played audio of a crying baby- watching my husband was seriously the funniest thing ever. The baby was falling our of the swaddle as he tried to "soothe" it, and he was holding it by the hips! We'll just cross that bridge when we come to it...

Any stories from your class?
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  • meandmrjones14meandmrjones14 member
    I don't have my classes until next month, but I can only imagine what kind of stories I'm going to hear
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  • 3JTMom3JTMom member
    Sounds like a fun adventure. I hope you have a good time!
    -notautomatic-
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  • lifesabeach85lifesabeach85 member
    I don't know if yall remember the Debbie Downer sketches with Rachel Dratch on SNL but there was this one lady in our class that the show must have based this character on. At least three times each class she would interrupt the teacher to tell a story about a worst case scenario that could have the tiniest chance of happening

    For example
    Teacher: if you have a boy, you can decide if you want to circumcise
    Crazy chick: I've heard that if you have that done in a hospital your baby can get MRSA

    Instead of panicking at all her scenarios DH once whispered the "wa-wah" sound to Me.


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  • Miz_LizMiz_Liz member
    I shared this on a post MONTHS ago, but it applies, so I will again :) in mine when we got to breathing and working through contractions, the teacher handed out clothes pins for the moms-to-be to clip on their ears to "simulate a contraction" and when it was clipped, we were supposed to practice the techniques (weird enough as it is, yes, I know). SO one of the dads-to-be asked (dead serious), "So do we need to bring our own clothes pin, or will the hospital provide it?" Ummm......yea, he is going to be a dad. There were also a few of those awkward moments like PP's have mentioned during breathing and having the dads/moms in weird positions, so many of them couldn't handle it and were giggling like 14 year old boys and pretending to be humping and such. It was awkward enough as it was, but that just made it like a high school class or something.
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  • mrsb30mrsb30 member
    ammc07 said:

    With my birthing class 5 years ago one of the evenings was breathing techniques. They would turn down the lights and have the mom's get into certain positions then practice breathing. In general it was kind of awkward based off the positions we were put into (one of them was the dad's were to stand up and the mom's on their knees in front of him, swaying side to side. If someone walked by it looked like a bunch of pregnant woman blowing their husbands).
    Well there was this one dad that got really into the breathing and kept telling his wife she was sitting incorrect so he told her to switch roles so he could show her how to do it. He seriously made her sit behind him and rub his back while he held a pillow between his legs and did the breathing. I felt so bad for the woman because I can only imagine how he treats her outside of the birthing class... Not to mention I wonder how to actual labor/birth went.

    Did you share this before, because I think I laughed just as hard then as I did now about a bunch of pregnant women blowing their husbands. I just tried to read it to DH, but I couldn't because I was crying from laughing so hard! Also this is making me wish I had taken a birth class!
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  • KrystalP2286KrystalP2286 member
    During our breastfeeding class, the instructor said our homework was to go home to do a 'nipple assessment.' You make a 'C' around the areola and pinch to see if your nipples introvert etc. I couldn't wait to do it out of curiosity, so on our pee break, I'm in the stall pinching my nipples. I must've not closed the door all the way and the door slightly opened. Needless to say, some of the other moms busted out laughing and got a little boob peek that evening. Very embarrassed lol!
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  • ammc07ammc07 member
    mrsb30 said:

    ammc07 said:

    With my birthing class 5 years ago one of the evenings was breathing techniques. They would turn down the lights and have the mom's get into certain positions then practice breathing. In general it was kind of awkward based off the positions we were put into (one of them was the dad's were to stand up and the mom's on their knees in front of him, swaying side to side. If someone walked by it looked like a bunch of pregnant woman blowing their husbands).
    Well there was this one dad that got really into the breathing and kept telling his wife she was sitting incorrect so he told her to switch roles so he could show her how to do it. He seriously made her sit behind him and rub his back while he held a pillow between his legs and did the breathing. I felt so bad for the woman because I can only imagine how he treats her outside of the birthing class... Not to mention I wonder how to actual labor/birth went.

    Did you share this before, because I think I laughed just as hard then as I did now about a bunch of pregnant women blowing their husbands. I just tried to read it to DH, but I couldn't because I was crying from laughing so hard! Also this is making me wish I had taken a birth class!
    I have shared it before it was quite some time ago though. The whole class was pretty bad. It was six weeks long and DH and I didn't make it through the full six weeks.
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  • kedbachkedbach member
    I didn't attend any birthing classes. :-S
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  • PixelPosyPixelPosy member
    Our teacher had the guys go grab a practice baby during the baby care portion of the class. My DH said he wasn't paying attention when he pulled a baby out of the bin and ended up with an ethnic baby that had a full head of hair. Almost all the other babies were your vanilla bald baby doll, not a lot of diversity in the babies or in the class. He felt he couldn't abandon the baby after picking it, so we just went with it. Still makes me giggle though of his internal struggle of abandoning a doll.
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  • amylianneamylianne member
    Man were our classes dull!
    There was one girl who had a melt down one class. To the room of relative strangers: "I'm having contractions on and off all day, my bag isn't packed, ... (Goes on with other stressors), and today my boobs started leaking!"
    The room was pretty silent, but I couldn't help but let out a small quiet chuckle. I have terrible timing on that stuff. She heard it since she was next to me. Luckily we've been friends ever since! She went into labor the day I was enduced, so we even had our boys on the same day.
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