we're going tomorrow. Im glad of the opportunity to spend some dedicated time with OH thinking about the birth. im a little worried they'll focus on the negative and get my OH het up, hes def on the pessimist side and Ive worked really hard to keep us talking positively about the birth. Anyone been to these classes?
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They do them really late on so that 'we'll remember it' - so the MW says! lol! Let us know how you get on - most people I speak to say they're a waste of time but I cant see why x
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I've just finished my set of classes and found them really quite positive. I'm not sure if it was just that particular midwife but she did emphasise the change in attitudes about 'normalising' birth and encouraging all the things we've talked about on here like staying mobile, no intervention unless necessary, using alternative methods of pain relief before thinking about drugs, skin to skin etc. I was quite encouraged!
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thats fantastic to hear. Im quite excited!!! 
Dont think OH is. He doesnt seem to have reacted at all to me telling him we're going, which either means, he doesnt want to go but is too scared to say so and knows that he has to, or he didnt really take in what i was saying and just said "yeah". At 5.30 tomorrow I will find out, when he predictably protests "you DIDNT tell me"
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Hope you get something out of them Tiny
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I quite enjoyed the NHS antenatal classes we did when I had my daughter. They were really well attended and all the ladies brought along their partners. Looking back though I would of like a get together for just the ladies as well as I don't feel we got to get to know each other and support each other a much as I would of liked. It would of been nice to talk more openly with the girls about all of our concerns. I never kept in touch with any of the group unfortunately and o thought that was a real shame. The class content was very useful, although we had a couple of occasions when the midwife didn't turn up to the session as she had been called away to home births, we all sat there like lemons for well over an hour wondering if she would turn up - no one thought to leave us a message to say there would be no one there!
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As if you'd forget!!!!! OMG midwives are strange creatures!!!!!
Haha! They are! My MW seems to be the most pessimistic woman i've EVER met! lol!
Im getting upset now. OH is not answering his phone and didnt reply to my messages when he was online on facebook. 
Ive had a really bad day. And he was expecting the garage to drop off his car today but theyve let him down so many times I need to know whether he needs picking up. I need to leave by 5 so I can pick him up promptly and we can get to the class. If he ignores me and drives home first, showers, grabs something to eat then turns up an hour late I think Ill leave him. I gave him the hypnobirthing book to read and he leftit in the car when it went to the garage so we've been without it for over 2 weeks, and he hasnt read it either.
Ive had a bad day and feel a hormonal rage coming on.
Ive had a really bad day. And he was expecting the garage to drop off his car today but theyve let him down so many times I need to know whether he needs picking up. I need to leave by 5 so I can pick him up promptly and we can get to the class. If he ignores me and drives home first, showers, grabs something to eat then turns up an hour late I think Ill leave him. I gave him the hypnobirthing book to read and he leftit in the car when it went to the garage so we've been without it for over 2 weeks, and he hasnt read it either. Ive had a bad day and feel a hormonal rage coming on.
we made it there were 30 people in the class!!! ridiculous!!! I found some of it a bit old hat but then Ive spent the last 7 months on here and read 3 books on pregnancy and childbirth (actually make it 4 if you count the nhs book you get)
I still think it was good that OH was there so we're def hearing the same info.
20 minutes in she starts going on about how its painful and how you wil feel very scared when you go into labour etc... and I thought, hmmm nothing like a positive attitude. Then at the end she asked if anyone was doing hypnobirthing so OH and I said we were. She said that her collegues daughter had just done it and they were all really excited about it. I dont think she knew a lot about it though cos she was using a lot of negative language about labour and I think if she'd even read the book she would rephrase a little bit.
Next week she's bringing up some gas and air to try and will show us around the ward.
Kind of looking forward to it, but I wish it was a smaller class.
there were 30 people in the class!!! ridiculous!!! I found some of it a bit old hat but then Ive spent the last 7 months on here and read 3 books on pregnancy and childbirth (actually make it 4 if you count the nhs book you get) I still think it was good that OH was there so we're def hearing the same info.
20 minutes in she starts going on about how its painful and how you wil feel very scared when you go into labour etc... and I thought, hmmm nothing like a positive attitude. Then at the end she asked if anyone was doing hypnobirthing so OH and I said we were. She said that her collegues daughter had just done it and they were all really excited about it. I dont think she knew a lot about it though cos she was using a lot of negative language about labour and I think if she'd even read the book she would rephrase a little bit.
Next week she's bringing up some gas and air to try and will show us around the ward.
Kind of looking forward to it, but I wish it was a smaller class.
