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NCB Classes-Need Recs

LoveLikeNoOtherLoveLikeNoOther member
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If you had a natural childbirth or are planning to, what classes can you recommend or have you taken to prepare?

I'm being tormented by all the options:

Blooma in Edina offers Lamaze and others..
How about the hospital classes...are they any good for non-intervention/drug free birthing methods?
Bradley Method-This one I'm highly interested in..
Can anybody give any recommendations for Bradley Instructors? 

I will be delivering at Maple Grove with a midwife; aiming for a water birth as well.

Thanks in Advance!

 

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Re: NCB Classes-Need Recs

  • luciannabluciannab

    I recently took a birthing class at Blooma in Edina - it wasn't Lamaze or Hypnobirthing, just a general birth class taught by Sarah Longacre (the owner of Blooma).  It was a 2-night course, something like 4-6 hours total time.

    We liked the class - she was honest about the realities of birth in hospitals (and elsewhere) and gave us a lot of things to try to manage the pain and get through a drug-free birth.  It wasn't a technique class, though...I had previously read the Hypnobirthing book and worked on that one my own and so I felt that her class complemented the work I was doing on my own.  I figured that I was at least adding different tools that I may or may not want to use when the time comes!

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