Hmmm 3 hour antenatal class #1: didn't tell me anything that websites, BB and my pregnancy books hadn't already told me. Next week is the dreaded 'bring a doll' for nappy practice and breastfeeding. For anyone thinking of an epi, they passed around the needle and stuff that stays in your back and just for sh*ts and giggles passed around the pee catheter that stays in your bladder until the day after delivery.
Oh, and the midwife scoffed at birth plans as she said that people fill up pages with stuff that they offer as standard anyway: they prefer you to be in a dimly lit room while going through the stages of labour as it is more calming for Mum, they prefer skin to skin contact straight after delivery, they prefer to let the 3 of you have all the time that you need rather than whisking off the baby (she actually said that she (or midwives in general) are not a babysitter, "it's YOUR baby, YOU deal with it!!" which was pretty funny. They encourage you to tell them that they're all being too noisy and just shush for a while so you can concentrate on breathing or whatever. If you want everyone gone and the door closed, tell them. So it sounds like my birth plan will be very basic. Offer me gas, give me the option of an epi (which I hope to turn down).

I'll update you about the doll on my b00b next week!