NCT reunion/Postnatal session

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Quick question about the postnatal session for the NCT course. Does anyone have any clues on the content? DH is asking if he has to come along!

From what I remember (2019 though!) the dads were all asked to give their version of the birth story etc… tbh it was dire you should both give it a miss if poss 😂

DH is asking if he has to come along!
well, that’s not a good start. How much parenting and housework has he done since the baby was born?

Ours was completely pointless. We all just sat around chatting, but there was no content! Majority of us still meet up anyway so could have done in a better location without the awkward NCT lady there 🤣

Our NCT lady organised it for us to meet at someones house and then ducked out on the day claiming a car breakdown. I suspect she always planned to do that- I reckon it's just meant to be a social gathering for the parents..

We didn’t have a formal postnatal session. We did have a meet up at someone’s house after all our babies were born. It was just food and drinks and getting to see all the babies. The photos from that day of all of them are lovely. Our babies are starting secondary school next month and I still keep in touch with 3 of the mums.

They are all meant to have a prescribed format but it depends if they held at a venue in which case, that's more likely, or if at a social venue, then probably not so likely and the leader will probably just try and speak to each couple on a 1-2-1 basis. I think most partners turn up most of the time.

Our teacher organised a belly dancer for ours, I think she was expecting us to join in 😂

Needless to say we didn't. We did however arrange to meet up once a week at a local cafe with a feeding room, come if you could. Got me through the first few months!

Half of us still meet up 20 years later.

All the dads came to ours. It was awful, we all had to go round the circle and say how our births had gone. My birth was really traumatic and I wasn't ready to talk about it at the time but felt like I had to!

We just met at a pub for lunch and showed off the babies!

Ours was a bit awkward as the teacher was very pro natural birth and BF and we had had every intervention possible between us and some were FF. However we are still going strong as a group 20 years later, and meet up at least once a month (it was most weeks in the early years).

We are meeting after for lunch and I’ve been meeting quite regularly with the other women which is great. Just wondering what goes on in the official session which is put in for 2 hours before our pub lunch!

The NCT lady is very hippy and will be less than impressed with my birth story. Refused a lengthy induction (good marks from NCT ) but asked for a C-section instead (very bad marks from NCT)! In fact all 8 of us had some sort of induction and 7 of us had a caesarean. I’ll be surprised if the instructor turns up!

i had my c section 6 weeks ago. I am 16 yeard old i have had my 6 week check and was cleared and told im healing perfectly. But i have been having the worst anxiety i think mainly because i still have one stitch on my scar but my doctor said its bot a worry and to wait for it to fall off. I have had a fear of the shower i become faint when i am about to get in . I know its all in my head but im not sure how to over come this. my skin in the middle of my scar is a very dark brown and the rest is how i think it should be i dont know if this because i have like tanned skin or just the tissue reparing causing skin discolouration. I just havent seen anyone experience this i just want to find someone with a similar experience to let me know im okay