Tonight I'm attending a birthing class. The same holistic center offers a cloth diaper class (partnered with the diaper service we looked into) and a babywearing class that I plan to take. They offer some other classes too. What kind of prep classes did you take? Which ones were most helpful pre-baby? Which ones would you suggest post baby?
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I went to a breastfeeding class, which was so helpful! I wish there was a babywearing and cloth diaper class around me!
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Childbirth & Baby class for first time parents and a breastfeeding class. I didn't find our BF class that help. The hospital LC was annoying and the only thing I do not like about our hospital.
I think all first time parents should take a childbirth & baby class! -
I was signed up for two but I was on hospital bed rest during them - whoops! I would recommend CPR for sure!
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I knew I was having a c/s so I only took a BF class - it was informative and hilarious - all the husbands were cracking jokes!
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None besides the hospital tour. I didn't want to know anything about it, ha! Both me and baby turned out just fine
I am taking an infant CPR class soon though.
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I'm also taking confident childbirth classes at an independent holistic/prenatal education center. So far I've found them very interesting and informative, and I'll be taking infant care and breastfeeding classes there next month, too. They offer baby wearing and baby signing classes after birth, but I'm still on the fence about those (mostly because they are $$$). But I'll definitely be back for Mommy & Me yoga.
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A child birth one.
It was useless. The lady had such weird ideas and theories.
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Birth class and infant CPR.
ETA Our peds office has a LC on staff and she does a class to introduce families to the practice plus covers all the basics of breastfeeding so we also attended that.
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I had signed up for a birthing class via our hospital but never made it! Whoops! I did take a cpr class though in order to take DD1 home from NICU. For DD2 I just winged it. I found the nurses and midwives and doctors to be very efficient and helpful in coaching! I had a vaginal birth for both.
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Breastfeeding
Newborn Care
Infant CPR and Safety
ChildbirthI definitely recommend taking a breastfeeding class if you'd like to BF. I learned a ton. I think taking a CPR class is a good idea too. I'll hopefully never have to use what I learned, but if I do need it I can do it.
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I took the child birth one, breast feeding, infant CPR, and car seat safety (where they install the car seat for you). The child birth and breastfeeding one were extremely long and only had about 15 minutes of useful information. Thankfully, they provided delicious food and drinks so that helped!
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Birthing class and breastfeeding class.
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I took child birth, breastfeeding and CPR. I recommend the last two. First was a waste for me.
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The hospital that I deliver at has a "bringing home baby" class. It's 6 weeks, 2.5 hours per week. The first three classes covered childbirth, the last covers breastfeeding, and the other two cover childcare.
It was quite the time investment, but I think it was very helpful - especially for DH. We still have the breastfeeding class this week, but my favorite part so far was when an anesthesiologist came to the class, gave a presentation and answered questions.
The hospital is "baby-friendly" but I think the instructors did a really good job of discussing "options" and making you feel empowered to make your own decisions. I didn't feel pressured one way or another.
The only thing that the class did not cover was infant cpr.
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None. We toured the hospital and watched a few videos, but with our schedules, the idea of trying to find and add a class that would work for both of us just stressed me out.
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We took a childbirth and a breast-feeding class. My induction failed and I ended up with a C-section so the childbirth class didn't do much. And I didn't find the breast-feeding class to be very helpful.
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@Alivoo01: good one! We plan to get two convertible car seats from the very beginning so help with proper installation would be great. I'll have to search for one in my area.
Infant CPR is now on my list! I'll have to look for it in the class descriptions. We still have to take the hospital tour.
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We took a First Aid/CPR class which definitely felt worth it even though we haven't had to use it yet, thankfully.
Our childbirth class was not that great.
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Just breastfeeding. I think it was a total waste. Somehow practicing on a doll is not the same as a real baby! I also think they only pointed out the positive aspects and not the bad. I get they want to promote breastfeeding, but I'd rather have an accurate and honest representation so my expectations are accurate!
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@Mamasig: yeah, we are pretty much sold on breastfeeding, so it sounds like a class on it may better once the baby actually arrives.
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None (but they showed us infant CPR in our hospital tour).
I wasn't wedded to a particular birthing method and our hospital was very supportive of whatever you want - I elected to have a scheduled C-section. The hospital also has lots of on-staff lactation consultants so I knew I would get 1:1 BF help too once the baby was there.
I might have taken more classes, but they were $$$ and only offered at weird times that didn't work with our work schedules, so we winged it. No regrets.
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