It does sound a long time hopefully you should cover quite a lot during that time.
Me & Hubby went to the class that is on offer at our hospital and I sincerely hope yours will be better than ours. It was supposed to run form 7:30 till 9
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0pm, we didn't get out of the hospital until 9:45pm and then the woman didn't really talk through the tings I wanted to know about.
It was called "Active Birth Class" the only thing active about it was that they got us involved by placing laminated cards on the floor in order of what we think will happen during labour. It was mind numbingly boring, mainly because I didn't learn anything thanks to all you lovely ladies on the forum and also P&B magazine. The woman didn't go through pain relief, breathing etc which is what I would expect from a birthing class and then at the end gave us a 7 page handout on the different positions for labour.
I was disappointed at wasting 3 hours of my evening.
When I did ask about pain relief I worded it in a way that she hopefully wouldn't ramble on (like she had all evening) cause it was already 9:15pm, so I said "apart form the usual epidural, gas & air & pethidine are there any other forms of pain relief available" to which she went on for another 10 minutes explaining they didn't, when all she had to say was no .
Then the lady next to me said she thought Meptid was available and the answer was yes they offer it, so why on earth didn't she mention it when I asked
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Agggrrhh She didn't explain what it was, the affects, how its administered etc.
Anyway sorry for my rant, its not like me but the class and the stupid midwife taking it really wound me up........................Watch I bet shes the one who's on duty when I go into labour, just my luck!