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October 2012 Moms
Diane107
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Anyone NOT do a childbirth class?
Diane107
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I just called to schedule with my OB and the only classes they had open don't work with our schedules. It's a three class set (since they don't do their long weekend class anymore) and out of the three dates I am not able to make one one night and DH isn't able to make it to another. Also, getting him to attend alone would be near impossible! So we'd be only going to one class together and I would be potentially alone or with my sister/mom for the other class, and then we'd just miss the other. I am beginning to think it's not really worth it honestly, but don't want to make a dumb mistake by not taking it if it is actually worthwhile.
There is a different childbirth class offered through the hospital as well, but is more expensive. So, I am still wondering if it's worth it and what the general opinions of them are. My sister said to not stress over it as she didn't learn anything she hadn't already read in a book, but I am still curious of other thoughts on it.
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Re: Anyone NOT do a childbirth class?
DS born 9/25/12
DS #2 due 6/13/16
I asked a similar childbirth class question a couple weeks back. The hospital offers a 4 week class on Thursday evenings in August and the OBGYN office offers a 7 hour long single day class on the last Sunday of every month; both would cost us $150. DH works on a Tugboat and is gone 2 weeks out of the month so he would miss 2 out of the 4 classes at the hospital and the only class he would be available for at the OBGYNs office would be Sept. 30...my EDD is Oct 13. After much discussion with several other moms, my midwife and my DH we decided just to do the hospital maternity ward tour and skip the classes because most people said it wasn't worth the classes, especially if we had to pay that much. My midwife just suggested being knowledgeable about the stages of labor, which I could read in a book. If we don't feel "prepared" we can always take the Sept. 30th class last minute.
Thank you for posting this. All of the classes still open in the next 2 months clash with DH's schedule, so I would have to go alone. I considered going alone, but don't really want to. I was going to talk to my Dr about it at my appt this week, but this conversation is really helpful at setting my mind at ease should we not take one.
However, I still want to take an infant CPR class.
I enjoyed mine with DS, which was offered through the hospital. But, given the specific situation I was in with him (high-risk, knew by 25w that I'd at least be induced & would possibly need a scheduled c/s), a lot of it didn't really apply to me. The best part(s) were the tour of L&D and that it was taught by a nurse/LC at the hospital so there was a lot of hospital-specific stuff covered, like policies of labor positions, monitoring of the baby, etc. It would have been a lot more useful if I'd been expecting/hoping to go into labor on my own. DH found it helpful, since he doesn't research stuff as much as I do.
Knowing what I know now, I should have just done a tour of L&D in my specific situation.
I'm glad to see this post. I've been struggling with the decision about labor and delivery classes. We are taking the hospital tour as well as an infant/child CPR class. I've been hesitant about more classes due to the cost.. And everyone I have talked to seems to think that I'm insane if I don't take both a labor and delivery class as well as a baby care course.