Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Birth Preparation - in English

When I was looking last fall, I found the following:

> my neuvola (Kallio) had information about an English language class held 2x year. it was hosted by a kätilö from the herttoniemi neuvola.

> we ended up going to a class held by the Työväenopisto in Tapiola. It was run by a kätilö from the kätilöopisto (who also happened to be present when our baby was actually born ) and cost about 20 EUR. But, I didn't find the classes terribly useful. It wasn't a 'birth preparation' in the lamaze sense. It was three 2 hr classes about 1) what happens during pregnancy 2)what happens in labor, signs of labor, when to go the hospital, video about a birth 3) how to wash, feed, clothe baby. It was interesting just to review these things together with dad, but no real information that I couldn't find in a book or on a website.

1 comment:

Peanut's Mom said...

That's pretty typical that the class is full. I was told that for some other sessions. I then just called back another day, spoke to someone else and with a little begging was able to get in :-)

Here's the webpages (IN ENGLISH) for the Työväenopisto:

http://english.espoo.fi/xsl_taso1_ilmanajank.asp?path=5731;6623;10948;14160