Anyone NOT taking Lamaze or birth classes

We are torn. Is is really that helpful?

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to be honost with you i dont think we are ignorance is bliss!!!

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I never did any of that... I was fine!

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i.m not

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I do not have plans to take Lamaze.

We are however signed up for free classes at our hospital, Labor & Delivery and C-Section. More so that I'd like DH to be prepared as I think he has little to no idea what to actually expect and I'd like him to be somewhat useful of a supporter in there!

I'll also be attending a Breastfeeding class (without DH) offered at the hospital for free as well.

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we watched laugh & learn about childbirth and that did it for us. i got enough out of that!

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why don't you get the laugh & learn video - then you can watch it in your own time but you don't have to spend the time in a class.

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I went to a class that was more of a tour of the hospital. I didn't have an real birthing class. It was fine for me.

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I didn't and never planned to. I agree, ignorance is bliss for me! I'm very much a go-with-the-flow kind of person, I feel like you can take 100 classes and never truly be prepared. Once labor starts I'm sure most of it would be thrown out the window for me.

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I took them with DS and I will say even though I had a c/s the breathing techniques that they teach really helped. I ended up on bed rest during my pg and missed the CS class. When my obyn heard that he made me go to a different class - a few days before DS was born. Well the nurse did not go over the breathing and the hospital was furious and gave everyone a free class plus a special class on just the breathing techniques. Honestly a lot of the stuff is really basic, but to me the breathing is invaluable. It teaches you how not to hyperventalate and to control your body.

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i took a birthing class before DS and i'm sorry i did.

turns out i used none of it because my labor went too fast - but that's besides the point.

i could have gotten the breathing/positioning stuff from a video just as easily (and more cheaply!).

secondly, i didn't need the labor/birth process spelled out for me. it just freaked me out more.

i say that if you're an ignorance-is-bliss, go-with-the-flow type, skip it.

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I took lamaze with my D and it was a waste of time and money. I ended up having false labor one of the nights of the class, and then real labor the other, so technically I never finished the class. My OB asked me the other day if I wanted to take any classes, I told him no. I think if you are trying to deliver completely naturally with no drugs it would be helpful, but for me, I like to get the epidural ASAP.

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Not taking Lamaze but have been reading two Bradley method books just for the heck of it.

We will be going to the L&D class that is offered by the hospital.

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We were going to but just decided yesterday not to. I borrowed two dvd's from my sister: one for child birth and the other for breastfeeding.

I still may want to take a hospital tour though, since I dont know anyone personally who's delivered at Huntington and I have no idea where the maternity ward is!

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I took a hospital based class and it was horrible!!!

BUt I also took a Bradley class and it was the best ever! It totally made a difference in my thoughts/feelings about pregnancy and labor...Even DH liked it!

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Posted by Julymommie09

to be honost with you i dont think we are ignorance is bliss!!!

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Posted by emomma17

Posted by Julymommie09

to be honost with you i dont think we are ignorance is bliss!!!

I don't know if I am going to do it. Reading the books gave me major anxiety so I stopped I feel like a class might put me over the edge. I am renting the video that someone on here suggested and if anything will take a breastfeeding course.