Yeah, I went to them, but like others have said, if you have read up beforehand they can be quite boring because you know most of what's being said. The only interesting stuff was the hospital-specific stuff, ie. the tour and what their policies/practices are with regard to certain situations. I think the thing that put me off the most was the videos. We watched loads, including one of a forceps delivery including episiotomy. All that served to do was scare the **** out of everyone in the class, even made a couple of girls cry. It was totally unneccessary - even if any of us ended up going through that, you don't need to actually see it. But I guess it is up to each person to decide for themselves - I know if I hadn't gone I probably would be worrying that I had missed something important!