Sep
Birth preparation class…
We took the classic birth prep class offered by the hospital. LAME. Not only were we horrified by the casualness of their hospital agenda presentation of “normal interventions” but it was boring as watching paint dry. The only fun we had was when I’d had enough and questioned the teacher on the truth about cesarean and epidural statistics. (FYI your chance of ending up in a cesarean is vastly increased once you take an epidural, they aren’t “perfectly safe”)
On the other hand a friend of mine lent us this great birth prep DVD. Laugh and Learn was everything it says it would be. The hostess is very funny and her delivery of all the info is fun and entertaining while maintaining a rather objective and all around informed perspective. I will say her bias toward less intervention and a more natural experience is there, but she still presents all the options and information equally. To bad we wasted time on the class, the DVD was by far the better investment.
