The NHS classes are run at my GPs by the midwives, although one of those is to look around the hospital I believe: I have to make my own appointment to look around the birthing centre. Hopefully this will cement in DH the desire for me not to have to share a ward with other people! The hospital/birth centre don't run their own classes, it's all done by the GP and local midwives. And DH is now keen for an intervention-free birth (I don't know why, but he may have picked that up from me!) so I don't think that the courses will change his mind.

Only one problem with DH on BB - when will I get a chance to chat to you all? And then you'll read his posts and my posts on things like spelling and grammar and wonder (or wounder, as DH would have it) how he's still alive.

The NCT classes are private ones, but they won't feature the midwives looking after me and they won't necessarily know anything about the hospital policies or the birth centre policies. It's just really to get a non-NHS view of birth as they don't seem to like me not wanting the hospital or drugs. I just need to know if the NCT classes are much different! (Or if BB is way better, as I suspect.) We'd be attending both sets of classes at the same time, you see, around November-December-January.