Week 4 of classes was the best so far I thought. We spoke about how our lives would change once our babies arrived, not only as a couple but also as individuals.

To kick it off, the boys and girls broke up into gender-based groups and wrote down their thoughts on butcher's paper.

Lucky me got to be scribe for the boys and as it turned out, the wifey was girl scribe. I hope we're not becoming one of those couples who have to dominate whatever group they're in, but to be fair we were assigned our duties by the lady leading the class so that made it ok :)

Our task was to list things that we thought we would be saying 'goodbye to' and things we thought we'd be saying 'hello' to. Some of the goodbyes were to spontaneous nights out, sleep ins, lazy Sundays, etc, and some of the hellos were to sleepless nights, children's entertainment, drawings on the fridge, baby-speak and so on.

Week 5 saw us learn about the different ways to prepare a baby for sleep, including wraps and blankets and that type of thing. To be honest most of the last two classes was reinforcing some common sense but it was great to hear it said out loud, helped confirm we were ready and up to the task.

As the last few minutes of our final class passed by, I began to wonder who among us would experience childbirth first. From memory there were two or three couples who were due before us but I couldn't remember who they were. As we walked out of the classroom for the last time, there was a bit of an air of excitement; we were all looking forward to becoming parents and nobody seemed freaked out or concerned about being unable to do things properly - I guess that is the major aim of the classes so in that case, they worked!

The coming few weeks will be just waiting around and seeing when our boy comes along, I'm expecting him to be early but I don't know if that's just optimism...