I am in the middle of teaching my first series of natural childbirth education classes. I am a "provisionally affiliated" (read: in the final step -- teaching a class -- of certification) Bradley Method (R) Instructor. I love it! Cory and I took classes when we were pregnant with Lucas and have used it for all 3 of our births. I've been wanting to teach for years and am so excited to finally be doing it.
So, friends, I bring to you, "You know you're a childbirth educator when..."
1. EVERY time you see a Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control store (with the acronym VABC out front), you read it as VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean).
2. You are excited when your Birth Atlas arrives in the mail!
3. You have your pelvis model lying around in preparation for a class, and your 8 and 6-year old boys pick it up and say, "WHAT is THIS?"
4. You hear same 8 and 6-year old boys tell their friends about their mom's "Bradley".
5. You take your "Growing Uterus Charts" and emotional signposts of labor visuals to be laminated, and the girl ringing you up says, "Cute" (pointing to the faces on the signposts of labor).....because she didn't know what else to say?
6. You have words like "uterus" on your family's blog
7.Every time you see a pregnant woman in public, you think, "I wonder if she knows her options..."
8. You find yourself able to relate even seemingly unrelatable things (i.e., your husband's job as a DC lobbyist for a trade association) to childbirth and/or the modern mismanagement of maternity care.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. -- Samuel Johnson
3 comments:
love it! That's cool that you are actually doing it! (and by that I mean teaching Bradley..come on janna, a little maturity please)
Maybe someday you can teach david and i since our Bradley teacher was hopped up on goofballs.
Hmm. I could totally see myself enjoying all that. I want to be just like you (or at least attend your class)! Remember when we used to get your dolls out of your mom's Lamaze box in the closet? I always wondered why they were naked every time. At least your boys could pretend the pelvis is a dinosaur bone...
Maida, I'm sorry to hear about your sad teacher. Ours was a little strange, too.
oh how fun...I would love to do that one day!! ALthough I wouldn't really classify my birthing technique as Bradley...though I did study you and Cory's workbook when prepping for Viana. I just love childbirth! Way to be involved in it Janna!!!
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