Birth Classes.

Things are proceeding, as they are apt to do. Last night K and I went to our first birth class, a two hour session at the hospital where we'll be delivering our "bundle of joy" in a couple of months time. Our midwife, henceforth to be named Nurse Placenta, seems a little nuts, but nice and competent, so I'm quite OK with "nuts". She seems very fixated on placentas and all the "wonderful" things that people do with them. Ones she's seen so far include stir frying it, using it to paint on a canvas, and leaving it attached to the baby till the umbilical cord drops off of it's own accord (around 3-5 days). This last is apparently called a "Lotus Birth". Weird. And in a hot climate, not particularly hygienic I'm sure.
We won't be going for any of those options, if I have to pick one, there's options for freezing it for use later, I think it was something to do with stem cells for treating leukaemia in the baby later if necessary. I might need to check that one out again. I imagine it's something that is rather expensive to do.
At one point, while watching a video of some couple from the 80's going through the birth process, K and I lost the plot and started giggling. For some reason the fact that part of my role is to provide "background music" set us off. K had a mental image of me standing in the corner clicking my fingers and singing Sinatra songs, while I pictured the Bazouki player from Monty Pythons Cheese Shop sketch. It took her a while to pull herself together, during which time she had to leave the room for a while. Poor dear.

I'm STILL playing Team Fortress 2, though I've been pretty good at making sure I balance duties around the house with having fun playing games, so it's OK... At least, I'm pretty sure it is.

And following on from the last post, recently I saw The Incredible Hulk, and rather enjoyed it. I don't think they did as good a job as they did with Iron Man, but still a pretty reasonable film and plot, with only a few really odd things that made me think "Noooo! That's crazy!", which when you consider that the main character turns green and grows to something like 5 times his original size when he gets annoyed, and I accept THAT, is pretty impressive.