Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Infant care class
Jeff and I completed our series of two infant care classes last night. They were pretty good. We learned how to diaper (neither of us has ever diapered a baby!), how to swaddle, how to calm a fussy baby (using the Happiest Baby on the Block technique), what to buy and not to buy, and how to get our car seat checked out. It was a very diverse group of students, mostly couples. Unfortunately I don't have any amusing anecdotes about the class, because it was very straightforward and nobody made a fool of themselves (though Jeff did poke me several times during one of the videos about "baby's six states of consciousness.") I almost broke down crying during the Happiest Baby on the Block video because those babies were just so darn CUTE. Obviously I have been taken over by preggo brain, because the sight of a baby usually doesn't make me burst into tears.
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OK, I'll bite... what are the "six states of consciousness" of the baby?
Well, I'm not sure if I can remember them exactly, but I think they went something like this: fast asleep, half asleep, wide awake, spacing out, and crying. That's only 5 though. Apparently it was a major scientific breakthrough when they discovered that babies had these five (or six) states.
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