My return to the classroom...in a sense...

...not as a student but as a teacher of sorts.

For those who don't know, in my past life, before children, I was a high school teacher. I taught English and Literature, and I loved it.

But tonight I am trying something new and exciting. I will be assisting with a Breastfeeding Education Class (BEC) that is being run by my ABA region. The BEC's are aimed at pregnant couples and cover a range of information I wish I had known before I had Xavier. I attended one while I was pregnant with Stella, and thoroughly recommend them for everyone expecting.

Last year I put my hand up to be the BEC coordinator for our region. This doesn't mean that I do it all, but it does mean that I am the point of contact and ensure that there are people there to run the session successfully. And tonight is our first BEC of 2010.

My first job was to form a BEC working committee, we have renamed ourselves the BEC'eisteddfod committee (a throwback to my time running rock eisteddfods while I was teaching) and make some decisions about how the BEC's are best to be run. The main thing was that instead of running 4 BEC's a year, we felt that we needed to run them monthly, so this is our first of monthly BEC's for 2010 and we have 6 couples booked in.

I am lucky to have some very experienced BEC'sters attending tonight, as well as the wonder Sazz who has been practicing her section on Baby Led Attachment all day. I am hoping in the next few weeks to have a meeting to work out our very own BEC handbook for those in our region to have on hand, this will be based on the BEC handbook issues by ABA.

I went this arvo to buy tea, coffee (regular and decaf) and hot choc for the expectant parents and am looking forward to tonight being a huge success.

There will be plenty of rubber boobs to pass around, dolls to practice positioning on and a real life breastfeeding demo.

I will update as to how the night went later.. but wish us luck..