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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 3683843" data-attributes="member: 13703">We've been to the birthing classes.  It was quite a learning experience for me.  My wife didn't learn as much as me (since she knew a lot of what they told us already), but it was still very useful for both of us.They went through the various forms of pain management that you can use.  At the moment we are both pretty open to most of the options.  We want to avoid them if we can, but since it is our first child, my wife may find that the pain is more than she thought she could deal with.What you are talking about with the babies not being as aware was discussed in our birthing classes.  It sounds like the painkilling drugs were still in the system when the baby was born.  Where we are having our baby, the hospital tries to avoid this happening by not giving you certain types of painkillers once the uterus has dialated beyond a certain point.  That way they the drug has passed through the mother and baby's systems by the time the baby is born.  At our hospital they said that they generally lay the baby on the mother's chest straight after birth so that the baby can try and breastfeed almost straight away.Luckily (?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> ) we don't have too many friends.  At least not those that are likely to drop in unexpectedly.I'm not too worried about either sets of parents either.  They have been great so far and have offered to help us as much as we want after the baby is born.I can definitely see this cropping up in the future, from my Mum mostly.  She always used to spoil us as children (not that me or my sister are obese or anything like that) and she spoils the family dog as well.  I think it is just something in her nature that she likes to do.  My wife and I have already discussed things like when the baby will be introduced to certain foods, or what they will given for lunch at school.  We'll definitely be trying to minimise the amount of soft drinks, chocolate and junk food that the baby/child is given.  With childhood obesity a big problem here in Australia, we really don't want to add our own child to the problem.Thanks for posting!  I appreciate hearing everyone's advice and experiences in this thread.  Keep it coming if you have more to tell.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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