Here we are again, another lecture on parenting from me. You'll need to read all of my salient reviews to help you in the struggle against the Dark Side that is Parental Guilt. If you know what to do and it doesn't work, then at least you tried. If you don't bother learning, you'll never know but should assume it's your fault... (cunning ploy to increase readership). Any Mothers reading this should nod knowingly, rate it VU, and, depending on their age, go knit something, nag your son-in-law, get broody again, or agree with all of my sage wisdom. Ok - I'll be nice, all mothers are spiffy, and you do a far better job than a man would if the biology were ...  Read the complete review

When I wanted to have a child I bought a big book explaining what happens in conception, through pregnancy , delivery, and after. I called it the bible. I read it so that I had an idea of what to expect and as I reached each step I read the relevant chapters. It was great to understand why I was feeling the way I was feeling etc. My husband on the otherhand had no idea what to expect especially at the delivery and after. He read snipets from the book when I read them to him but that was that. He couldn't make it to the midwives appointment because of work but did manage to attend the scans. It was at the ante-natal classes that it really hit home about what we were ..  Read the complete review

Why not?? In short there are two of you having this baby and if the mum to be wants to go why shouldn't he? I asked my husband if he found the ones we went to useful / was he glad he went etc before I wrote this review. His response was yes he was glad he went, not necessarily because of the pearls of wisdom dispensed by the midwife who ran the class,although he did say that was useful as well, but to see other people in the same boat as us. I think as the mum to be I'd been immensing myself gradually in the world of ante natal care and meeting other pregnant ladies, and generally getting used to the idea of birth, whereas he had been at work ...  Read the complete review

Our antenatal classes were organised in a block of three, all held in the evenings between 7pm and 9pm. We started them in February/March and it was still darkish when we attended. My husband and I were both attending after a long day at work and my husband had been tired from a big project that he'd been working on. I remember him moaning at having to go out, but often getting us a take-away since neither of us would be around to cook in the evenings as our train back didn't give us much time before going out. One of my main memories was us all being given a sheet of paper for a quiz and my husband writing in big letters over it "Where's the cup of ...  Read the complete review