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[quote=Anonymous]Bradley method weekly classes (it was once/week, a couple hours, for 2-3 months I believe).  Covered pregnancy, nutrition, labor, postpartum, breastfeeding.  Did not cover baby care or infant CPR (which would have been nice in retrospect).
I really liked it because it emphasized the partner's role in supporting the birth (all the DHs attended, but could have been a mom, doula, etc just as easily).  DH had to give up football on Sunday nights for most of a season and I think it really started to make the whole thing real for him.
While pretty anti-intervention, which we liked, the instructor was very matter of fact about possible interventions, the whys and hows and whens, etc, without a lot of judgement.  Several of us wound up needing some kind of intervention (various types of inductions) and nothing that was said made me feel the least bit defensive or "less than" or anything like that.
I kind of think that any breastfeeding class without an actual breastfeeding infant in your arms is useless.[/quote]

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