to wonder if NCT is a bit too posh for me?

[anyname123]

Hia, first pregnancy, I'm 34 and relocated to live with partner about a year ago. I have made a few mates in new city, but none have children. I'm due in October and just considering NCT as a way to meet women to hang out with on Mat leave. Whilst I'm hardly a scumbag I'm not very organic and middle class either, wondering if anyone happy to share their experience of NCT, will it be full of the brown rice brigade and a waste of a few hundred quid, or is it a good way to meet others in same position? Thanks in advance.

Bill I notice youve had a comment removed for being abusive. Your comments on here have been really personal and unkind. You obviously have a problem with nct attendees.

For the record, I never said that people who cant afford nct obviously waste money. You twisted what I said. I actually said that I have a low income (so we are not all high income-earners) but afforded nct because I live very frugally and had some savings. I was a part-time classroom assistant.

Also I am not 'dense'. I have a politics degree. Hence my comment about this not being the place for in-depth political debate. And no, the initial comment did not require it, and just referred to a concern that it would be posh.

People from a variety of backgrounds attend. It is means-tested anyway. Also, people may go if they had it bought for them as a present.

I went to NCT classes as a single seventeen year old single pregnant mum who had never been near a baby.
They were definitely not posh/too posh.
I am so glad I went.
The classes, the tutor and the other women helped and supported me so amazingly and I grew in knowledge and confidence.
It was thirty two years ago and everyone is different and has differing expectations but I would still recommend them.

I wouldn't say it's posh but I didn't have the best experience with the people. We were one of 6 couples and somehow 4 of the girls had been to the same chain of girls private schools (the gdst ones) so they instantly bonded. The classes didn't teach me anything I wouldn't have found out at the hospital class and I found the whole refusal to engage with bottle feeding/pain relief faintly ridiculous.
After the babies were born we met up a few times but they stuck together and didn't always invite me. They all had boys, I had a girl, so they felt it was appropriate to leave me out of things such as a visit to Thomas the tank engine show...really...
I made much better friends at a local group for first time mums at the Childrens centre and wish I hadn't bothered with nct. I have a lot of friends who made good friends though so I think it's hit and miss