Or will I just get told off and looked down upon?
Background: My GP saw me when I first found I was PG, and swiftly sold me into the Homerton, because the midwives there run the GP surgery antenatal clinic, there's an EPU and all mod cons and it's just been refurbed and is 'posh like the Chelsea and Westminster'. Fine, I say, I'll go there. Although on further googling it seems that the birth centre is fab but the maternity ward is hell on earth and there are grim tales of bullying night staff bollocking desperate bleeding women staggering about in the small hours and forcing formula on newborns etc etc.
Anyway, somewhat surprised at the speed at which I was signed up to a hospital, I followed MN advice and made contact with the NCT as the courses get booked up super fast, apparently. I've always felt that when the times comes I will be a 'give me all the drugs you have got' type of woman. I'm semi-phobic about hospitals (long, sad story) but nor do I want to have my fanjo and innards shredded without the benefit of opiates or similar on tap.
NCT sounds like a good way to meet other 1st time parents. But will I get treated like a leper because I do not think there is any way that breathing and endorphins are going to do it for me, any more than I'd rely on them for root canal work? I know it works for others and that's great. But I want modern medicine and as much pain relief as I can get.
Sorry long post.