I am a midwife and am going to lead two antenatal classes shortly (first time since I was a student ages ago) one on normal labour/pain relief and one on interventions in labour.
I went along to another midwife's sessions an wondered if she glossed over things a bit - episiotomies with instrumental deliveries, what pushing is actually like, pain the day after a caesarean etc but on the other hand I don't want to scare people.
So - what do you think would be useful to know for your first birth that you didn't learn at antenatal class?
We also touch on the first few days with the baby so anything about that would also be useful (breast feeding is a seperate class run by someone else)
Thanks
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Antenatal classes - what do you wish they had told you?
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Nettee · 11/10/2009 10:56
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