Dan, I hope my thread on 'what did you learn from antenatal classes" didnt hurt your feelings. If it did that was not my intention at all and I am sorry. I jsut wanted to see what people did find useful from them as when I spoke to the midwife at my hospital about what I wanted to learn she told me that unfortunately I wouldn't learn that in the hospital run antenatal classes.

To give you an idea of what I did want to learn and what I still do is
1. How to manage without drugs
2. Breathing techniques for different parts of labour
3. How to avoid tearing

It seems alot of people who are wanting to go down the natural path are getting more use out of the hypno and calm birth classes. I dotn know if some of this can be intergrated into your classes.

I also wish that the hospital didnt make you pay for the whole 5 lessons. I would love to have just done the lesson on breastfeeding as that was the only lesson that I could see being useful to me.