How to have a baby

Last night we had our first class to learn how to have a baby. Or more importantly how to squeeze something the size of a cantalope out a hole the size of a grape with as little pain as possible. We are giving the Bradley Method a try. Basically they focus on education and relaxation. They don't make us breath in crazy patterns, no who-who-hee or hee-who-hah or anything like that, just normal abdominal breathing. Which is for the best because I don't think I would remember the breathing patterns, I would get my whos and hees and hahs all mixed up. Apparently Dr. Bradley based his method on his observations of animals giving birth growing up on a farm. He was also the first doctor to allow the husband to be in the delivery room with the wife (he had noticed that all the ladies ended up forming a bond with him after he coached them through birth and decided that it would be much better if they formed that bond with their husband).