Practice makes perfect

We had a morning Ante-Natal class today; I was the only man able to make it, Olga was very proud :-) We're such a team! Part of the class was the inevitable "nappy" lesson. We split into two groups and could choose between trying to describing how we would change a nappy (what we'd need, how we'd do it, etc..) and how we would bath baby. I jumped in for the nappy scenario, I know even less about bathing a baby than changing its nappy, and there seemed more things to get wrong with bathing, and I didn't want to be the first one in the group to drown the doll.
Our little group of myself, Olga & one of the other mums-to-be, Susie, got most of the theoretical things right in the end, it was only the practical aspect where we tripped up. Those nappies should have Front and Back written on them, otherwise it's far too easy to put them on back-to-front. Would that be too much to ask? At least put that on the "newborn"-style of nappy, or put a pretty pattern on the front, so we know. It's not immediately obvious that the fastening tapes should go at the front, is it? If you were being neat and tidy, wouldn't you put them at the back, out of sight?
Anyway, one of us put the nappy on the doll back-to-front, and I'll never reveal which one of the three of us it was.

Besides that, it was a very useful session, and things are moving quickly now; on Sunday evening we're all going to the Maternity ward at Wycombe General for a look around.

At home, more things that Olga has ordered on the internet are arriving. Last night the dining room table looked like it had come from a UN Refugee Camp, so abundant were the blankets and towels. We had a little play with the Quinny pram, trying to work out the brakes - that could prove useful in Wycombe, although chasing a pram down a steep hill is a quick way to lose those post-natal kilos.

We're going to have fun trying to work out how the car seat fits in the car this weekend....