Antenatel classes

[aliciabubba]

I have my first antenatel class tonight... Can anyone tell me what to expect? What do they usually go through on first night? Thanks girls xxx

 

[BellaRiven]

If it's the NHS one, it will probably be Labour, how to recognise it etc and pain relief.

Not sure if it's the NCT ones as I haven;t had mine yet

I believe it's also dependant on your area so I could be wrong.

xxx

 

[furbaby]

My first NHS one was amazing they out lined the next 5 weeks

Week 1- car safety/ changing relationships/ real nappies/ communicating with your baby

Week 2 & 3 - midwife discussing child birth and pain options

Week 4 - someone is coming in to go through baby first aid

Week 5 - more on life with baby

Last night was brilliant we were all created with offers of tea/ coffee/ water and cake- we watched a 30 min video on communicating with baby and were given goody bags- each a canvas bag with a teddy, keyring with supermarket coin fob, plastic pen, magazine bump to baby, leaflets etc
They also passed around real nappies and had a small talk on them and told us what the children's centre in the area could offer us and talked about the important of a proper fitting car seat & how our relationships may change - baby blues what warning signs to look out for etc.....


I m really glad that I didn't pay for the NCT ones now as my classes seem pretty amazing - apparently where i live the children's centre is run by the charity banardos and they run the classes (as well as baby massage/ play groups/ drop in clinics etc) which apparently means they have more funding- which might explain the goody bags and focus on baby communication/ relationships/ first aid etc..... Unless this is all standard then I am really impressed with NHS

hope you have an amazing class like me xxxx

 

[BellaRiven]

Fur Baby your's sound amazing!!!

Wonder why mine haven;t covered that!!! maybe I will ring them!

 

[aliciabubba]

It's NHS. Gosh Furbaby I hope I experience that tonight! I have to go it alone though, OH is sick in bed with the flu! boo!

 

[BellaRiven]

I did mine alone OH was working and I thought it was fine, and also what I found was because I have spent so much time on here reading peoples experiances I was able to answer the questions easier which made me look like a smarty pants which was very cool

xxxx

 

[furbaby]

I have no idea if this is standard for NHS classes but it was really good Having done a ridiculous amount of research of real nappies I knew more than the lady at group- so I got to sound all smarty pants lol!

I'd say it was really good but no one really socialised I don't know if some of the mummies where just shy or not interested in making friends but most people kept to themselves or partners I was hoping to make some new mummy friends!!!