So as I said, last night was our last ante-natal class and it included a tour of the birth suite, or should I say Garden Of Eden!They make it very clear in the lessons that during labour everything possible is done to make your child exiting your body as, pardon the pun, painless as possible.
The suite is way more extravagant and plush than I could have ever imagined. You name it, its in there - Bedroom, Lounge, Bathroom, stereo, tv, fridge, tea/coffee, couches, pillows, fit balls, beanbags etc along with the stuff THEY need. There is also a spa room painted like the bloody sistine chapel complete with a sky ceiling, roman columns painted on the walls and lots of 'happy place' visual imagery.
At first while walking through I was very impressed but after a little while I realised that, yes, its impressive but its really because they feel somewhat helpless and can only assist you in birthing your child. At the end of the day you can have as many support people/midwives/Drs around you as you like but they aren't having the kid are they!
Our due date is still the 6th May but we've always thought we're a little further along than they think. In reality it could be anytime now but due to first children typically being overdue, the factors should counteract each other and DJ's birthday will be between the 1st - 10th May. Not that I have a clue!
We were also told NOT to Google 'birth' as it only generally shows bad things, instead Google 'SVD'. If you've had a kid you might know what it stands for but what the heck, does anyone actually know off the top of their heads?
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"singular value decomposition (SVD) is an important factorization of a rectangular real or complex matrix, with many applications in signal processing and statistics. Applications which employ the SVD include computing the pseudoinverse, least squares fitting of data, matrix approximation, and determining the rank, range and null space of a matrix."
Is that something to do with a large object exiting a small opening?
Google more you will young padawan
Semi-Virtual Diskette?
http://www.thesvd.com/SVD/
yes thats it, i wish Belinda has a semi-virtual diskette birth :P
something about spontaneous delivery, I am assuming the v is for vaginal?
There will be a lot of "sudden realisations" in that birthing suite, most involving swear words!! I hope little DJ stays tucked away for a bit longer yet, give you time to get settled etc. Best of luck with eerything :)
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