Help Me - What DID you want to learn in antenatal Classes??

[Evie76]

Our classes were very good and really helped when Daniel was born. My DH was a picture of calmness and wouldn't have been so if he hadn't attended the classes. He also asked all of the questions that popped in to his head. People might have thought they were weird questions, but he asked them anyway and some of the dads probably were thinking them anyway. Maybe a 'dad's night' would be good.

We were taken on a tour of the labour wards (which may be easier because we're in the country) and one of the class members was connected to the fetal heart monitor. So when I was having Daniel we knew exactly what the machine was and what the noises meant.

We also simulated stuff like anaesthetics. The nurses always picked the men to be connected up (using sticky tape and the catheters etc). Someone would hold a drip and someone would be taking a pulse. It was to show all the sorts of people you could be expecting in a room during birth. The victim was surrounded by people doing this that and the other.

The one thing that wasn't mentioned was the pain of the uterus shrinking (Or even that it would so dramatically). After I had Daniel I was also asked if my "loss" was OK. What was OK? I was bleeding like a stuck pig as far as I was concerned. Maybe need to go in to the loss after birth and the potential mess this causes. That was a surprise to me. It felt like my DS had clawed his way out when I was weeing, I wasn't expecting that either.

If I think of anything else I'll reply again. I could probably go all day.