Product: Laugh and Learn About Childbirth - Lamaze and Beyond (2003)
Rating: 3.0
Her voice and Camel Toe made me wince with fear
My wife and I decided to forego taking any childbirth classes, because most people we knew said they were mostly a waste of time. Well, with the due dat looming my wife started to suffer from extreme anxiety issues. We still didn't want to take a class and figured we still didn't have time anyways. So into good old Google goes "dvd lamaze" I think this DVD's website is the first hit. Lot's of positive reviews posted from Amazon on this site. I'm not willing to dish out for this thing still. Luckily our a few of our local libraries had it in.The DVD was good for relaxing my wife's anxiety. But we both found Sheri Bayles extremely annoying, she was really trying hard to be a comedian - unsuccessfully. The high pitched voices she used in imitating expectant mothers made me wince. And all of this extraneous 'comedy' made the video overly long. Unfortunately you couldn't just fast forward through these spots because she would quite often throw good bits of info in with these routines.Another negative is that she quite often reccomends deferment to the doctor for decision making. Something my wife and I aren't willing to do - especially regarding the likes of episiotomies.Plus she spreads her legs so often showing off one of the biggest camel toes making me wince some more.