Errkal wrote:Sounds the NCT baby cult gooseberry fool I got dragged to.
Was mostly a bunch of useless bollocks about doing "what feels right" but with no actual fact about the advantages or disadvantages of certain birth plans or pain relief. Load of bollocks.
Our NCT course was pretty informative - felt pretty factual, and the woman delivering (!) it was quite young (and hot), and not too preachy.
Probably did make us more confident going into the birth. Best of all, the other half is still in touch with all five other mums, and the lad's best friend at nursery is one of the girls, who he has been mixing with since they were a few weeks old.
Edit: we also did the NHS one (because it was the only way we could get the tour of the birthing suite at the RVI) and it was nowhere near as good. I guess experiences can very depending on who's leading the course and who your classmates are. The woman who came in just for the breastfeeding segment was everything you'd expect NCT to be - patronising, overbearing, didn't acknowledge any of the dads for the whole time, etc.