Antenatal Class Timing - Opinions Please!

Hi Everyone

Seeing as i'm hopeless at making decisions i'm after some advice/opinions on timings for antenatal classes.

I'm due on 20 August and have the choice of two classes - May/June or July/August. Do I go for the earlier class and finish a couple of months before i'm due or the later class which finishes a couple of days before i'm due???
I've been told one of the most important aspects of the classes is the social networking with other mums due around the same time ...

Help please

i'd do the july/august ones just cause its closer to due date.. the info will still be all fresh

Thanks for the advice ladies

I'm doing one of the Parents Centre courses in Wellington sparkle.

Hi I am due a few days before you and like you I had the choice of may/june or july/august but the last class was my due date so between myself and the lady who organises them we decided the august one was too close so opted for may/june sorry to be different to everybody else.

I agree with the others. I did mine through Wellington Parents centre and it was awesome. I made some really great friends and had such a supportive group. You'll love it!

I did the july/ aug parents centre ones here and we had a couple of ones that didnt make it to the end (our instructor made a point of talking fast) but we have now got an AMAZING antenatal coffee group

Dont be put off them zebra. Sure you dont really learn much and they did scare the living daylights out of us regarding pain relief (which is NO WHERE NEAR AS BAD as they make out and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ) but I think they are good for a) the boys...who never read anything and dont listen to us and b) the support from the girls afterwards.

As I said, our antenatal coffee group is still going strong. We all meet every 2 weeks and in between time bounce emails around like you wouldnt believe. Noone snobby amongst us but amazingly we all seem to have heaps in common.

lol you inspired me to email my AN group and turns out they all want to meet jut noone had arranged it..lol so I'm doing that

I found that most people at our AN class were due at least 3-4 weeks after it finished, so I would consider doing the earlier one. We have a good group of about 7-8 ladies and bubs (and sometimes even dads like yesterday - we had 2 dads as well, was so cool) out of 13 that still meet every 2 weeks. I hosted it at my place yesterday and just had so much fun talking to people that were going through exactly the same thing at the same time. It's awesome. As for the AN classes, I didn't find them that great but were worthwhile just so I could get involved with the other ladies and babies.

Yep Kawwww, did it at CWH. Found it OK, but I was the youngest one there (which I thought would be an issue... turns out I must be old for my age cos I think I fit in well! Hehe not that the other ladies are that much older, but at least 3-4 years for the next youngest ones)