This week Claire and I attended our last antenatal class before the birth of our first child! The fifth session was a more of a hands on session than a lecture like the last four have been. Everyone in the class had to learn how to wrap a baby in a wrap a number of … Continue reading Antenatal Class #5 →

Continuing on in a series of short posts about my learning’s from our antenatal classes, Claire and I attended our second last session tonight. This evening started out with a stroll through the Gold Coast Pindara Private Hospital, followed up by our normal discussion session. The walk through Pindara Private was useful, as I hadn’t … Continue reading Antenatal Class #4 →

The third of our five antenatal classes were on tonight, which largely covered the different types of medical interventions, what the typical trigger points for each of them are and preventative measures to avoid them if possible. We got to inspect a couple of the different instruments that the doctors use, such as the vacuum … Continue reading Antenatal Class #3 →

Last week I mentioned that Claire and I attended our first antenatal class and that it was really informative, the second session (which was meant to be scary and so on) was probably even better than the first. The second session primarily focuses on labor and the birth, starting out with a warm cuddly video … Continue reading Antenatal Class #2 →

This week Claire and I attended our first antenatal classes at Pindara Private Hospital on the Gold Coast. We technically had the choice of doing the antenatal classes over a single weekend or five two hour sessions spilt over five weeks. Even though we booked in for the antenatal classes months ago, we had no … Continue reading Antenatal Class #1 →