Prenatal/birthing class and Church Baby Shower

This past Saturday, Dan and I attended a prenatal/birthing class given by a labor and delivery nurse from the hospital.  She covered everything from contractions (real and Braxton-Hicks or practice ones), a normal delivery, interventions (vacuum, forceps, episiotomy),  C-section (emergency or planned), induction and all that goes with that, breastfeeding, mom and baby care, and more.  At the end of the long day we got to take a tour of the hospital and see exactly where everything will take place. I have been to this hospital to see new babies of our church members- but this time I saw everything through new eyes! I feel better about the "unknown" now.

This past Sunday our church gave us a baby shower.  Dan and I spent the whole time opening gifts from our generous friends.  Unfortunately, our camera was having issues and a lot of the pictures did not come out well. In the next week, as we continue to put away all the new goodies for baby girl, we will take pictures and post them.  I tried to find a few pics that came out better to give you a glimpse of the fun time we had opening gifts for our baby.

 

Beautiful cakes made by a mom in our church.

 

Diaper cake- creatively made by a soon-to-be Mom in our church.

 

A special gift for Dan- the pouch has "Dan's Diaper Service" written across it. It came with diapers, gloves, tongs, masks, clothes pin, and a few other necessary diapering things for "Dad". 

 

We have very creative and talented people in our church. This is a homemade bear that comes with a special permanent marker. The bear is to be taken to the hospital so everyone that comes by to see the new baby can sign the bear.  The word must of gotten out that I like purple- a lot of things we got are purple including the darling fabric of this special bear. 

 

This one is a little blury- but shows some cute bibs we received.

 

This picture came out clear but it's hard to tell what the gift is- well its a rainforest mobile that hangs on the side of the crib. It plays music and has lights and moving animals.

 

This is one of the most unique gifts we got- a bunny security blanket/lovey.  It has a bunny head with long ears made of a fleece type material.  The blanket that hangs down is the fleece material on one side and silky on the other side.  The moms at the baby shower were jealous and were asking where it came from. I can just imagine our little girl dragging this sweet bunny around the house and sleeping with it :)