It’s pronounced Lah-mah-zay

Just kidding…I like to make Jess roll her eyes by correcting her in front of strangers saying, “Babe, it’s pronounced Lah-mah-zay.”  Jess and I finished up our Lamaze classes this week and man is that a relief. Not so much because of the fact that I’m a guy sitting in a room full of preggos, but because of the fact that as least half of those preggos didn’t seem to know as much about their condition as I did…and that stunned me!

One thing that Jess likes to do is attend classes. She has said on more than one occasion that she’d be perfectly happy as a full time student. Personally, I couldn’t wait to get out of school and get to work. Anyway, when we had the chance to sign up for classes, Jess didn’t blink before signing us up for 3 — infant safety and CPR, breastfeeding, and Lamaze. The first two were a few hours each but the Lamaze class was 4 days (one/week) for 3 hours each…ugh. I was hesitant about attending the breastfeeding class with Jess (thinking it was only for the mothers) but I have to say that it was pretty informative, as was the infant safety and CPR class. I learned a lot in each having never spent much time around infants. Having been to those two already, we found the Lamaze class got pretty dull after a while because it was a lot of review. It was good to have some of the information again, but overall it wasn’t nearly as informative as I wanted it to be. Overall, I liked the classes and would highly recommend them for new parents. I have a good idea of how to handle my little one now in a number of different situations and I’m confident that I’ll be able to figure out what I don’t know without too much going wrong…