birthing from within
I’ll be taking a Birthing From Within childbirth class this weekend and I’m really looking forward to it. One of the tenets of the book is a teacher talking about how for their classes, they don’t ask couples to bring pillows, believing that they don’t want couples to be lulled into a false sense of complacency about labor. That feels so right to me, and I hope the class feels the same.
I opted against taking the Bradley method of childbirth classes because given the insane amount of research I’ve already done on pregnancy and childbirth, I didn’t feel like I would be learning anything new. Much to my delight, our midwife agreed with me and recommended the Birthing From Within class.
And IMHO, Lamaze and generic hospital childbirth classes are either a joke or completely counter-intuitive.
