The last two Fridays has been AWESOME FUN - only because they've been seminars covering the topic of Women's Health :D This morning was pretty funny - I dunno if I'm just immature, but I look around me and everyone really is on the verge of sniggering and half-smiling at the ridicularity of it all. I mean ok it's like 8a.m in the morning and BAM what/where/how is this view? There's the baby's head and there's a bum crack...

So we went through the stages of normal labour - remember the 3 P's girls - i) Powers ii) Passage iii) Passenger. So the "Powers" refers to the mother's pushing power and uterine contractions, then passage refers to the bony pelvis and soft tissues whilst passenger refers to the baby itself - if you have a fat baby head, it is harder to get out. Reasonable logic. What I really enjoyed was this, quote the lecturer: "Men like problems with solutions. So they're like ok we got a problem here, we need to get the baby out *rubs hands together* now how are we going to do this? And realising they need to wait 12 hours for the result, men get frustrated and annoyed because they just want it out already!" This was met with raucous laughter considering like 85% of the year level is indeed female.

Then came some practicals. First one was good in that we did more pelvic tilting and pelvic floor muscle training. Second we did TENS. Final one we had an ACTIVE BIRTHING CLASS. So yes we were required to pretend that we were in our final stages of labour and having massive contractions - we squatted, rubbed our quads and listened to Geri Halliwell's "It's Raining Men" for 60s because that replicated one bout of uncomfortable contraction. We tried some visualisation techniques and distraction i.e. sitting on the fit ball stomping our legs and squeezing stress balls shouting "Baby out" and "Aaaagghh."

So yes, I even managed to catch some of the action.


I love uni :)