i never took a child birthing class, help!!?

i think the biggest thing that will help is alot of walking and some light exercises. go online and google it, heck its free. also eat healthy and drink plenty of water. you are eating for 2 and you want to make sure that your baby will be healthy. my mom told me she walked everywhere she could when she was pregnant. she said it helped with the labor and the pain wasnt as bad since she was able to walk alot.

I wouldn’t worry too much. My husband and I went to a 6 weeks antenatal course at our hospital, I enjoyed it, my husband only grudgingly went along because his wife was pregnant and he didn’t want to argue! I don’t think it’s really a drama if you missed out. It did absolutely nothing to prepare my husband who by the end of the course, still have no idea what he was really going to witness. The class neglected to mention just how traumatic and intense labour can be. As far as what I learnt, when you’re in labour your memory recall is a bit dodgy. The midwives and doctors will tell you everything you need to know at the time. Trust me, you won’t care what you learnt weeks before or an hour before. You just want someone to tell you what to do NOW!
Probably the best idea I can suggest is to buy a book and give it a good going over. There are many that cover pregnancy, birth as well as care for the newborn. So it will still be worth buying given that you are 35 weeks. Or if you can’t afford it, go to your local library or early childhood health centre where you should be able to borrow one.
Good luck and just trust your body. Hundreds of millions of women have done it before hand and you will have wonderful professionals helping you

Don’t worry. I just had my second baby two weeks ago. My mother had seven children and has been a RN in Labor and Delivery for over thirty years. My Mom asks women “Have you taken a lamaze class?” When they say “No.”, she says: “It’s ok-we do on the job training her.” This is because a lot of it comes naturally. I’m from SF, there is a place there called natural resources but let me tell you what I know. Try to get “The Business of Being Born” on Netflix. I learned a lot with this pregnancy.
Try to avoid drugs if you can. They can but don’t always put the baby in distress. Also, sometimes they wear off and make contractions more painful. I have had one hospital (at my mother’s work) and one homebirth. You may want drugs in labor-I did but didn’t get them because it such a delicate time. Yes contractions are painful. I learned to make noise this time which I didn’t last time. When you are having a contraction you can practice your vowel sounds. The same sounds you make in intimacy are helpful when having a baby. It sounds silly but when you open up your throat and diaphragm, your cervix opens up, which is important. Don’t scream, don’t scrunch your face. Make low, long sounds. A lot of women scream which is completely counter-productive- I have heard them do it walking into my Mom’s work over the years. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh, Ooooooooohhhhhhhh. It also really helps with the intensity of the contraction and gives you something to focus on. Now I had a home water birth this last time but there are things you can do at home or in the hospital. Drink lots of water the day you go into labor. You may not feel the urge to pee but you must go and check because a full bladder can keep the baby’s head from dropping.
To drop that baby down, part your legs(like a triangle) and swing your hips from either side to side or a figure 8 motions-practice this now. You can also labor in the shower at the hospital. The warm water will help with the contractions and to relax you a little to open up. You want those sontracitons to get intense.
Your contractions are going to be intense. Just breathe in. Now when that pain peaks and starts to go away, you push and try to make noise if you must.
Pain actually helps you to ge that baby out-(The spirituality of Midwifery). Drugs can interfere with that. Sometimes, but not always people will have trouble pushing because of the numbing done by the epidural. Your brain will produce endorphins to help you deal with the pain as long as you don’t have drugs. With your partner, it can help to slow dance to drop that baby down. I relocated to the other side of the country during the last weeks of my pregnancy so I had my sister hold me during some contractions. You can put your arms around your partners neck. You can also bring a portable radio and some music YOU like into you birth room. I had “The Most Realxing Classical Music Album in the World” but I had my midwife turn it off because of the heavy instumental that would come on in the middle of an intense contraction. Spend as much time laboring at home that you can, there is something like the 4-1-1 rule. If you go in too early, they’ll just send you home. The doctor or whoever breaking your water is no gurantee that you will dilate. Do not push before you are ten centimeters. If you opt to have drugs, they are supposed to check to see how dilated you are before they give you drugs because they do not want to give drugs to close to the delivery because they do not want the drugs to get to the baby. I personally believe they get to the baby anyway. Sometimes they will forget to check your dilation before they give you drugs. So, try to avoid them but if you feel you can’t, make sure they check to see how dilated you are. Try not to get drugs too early on in your labor, you do this and you up your statistics for a C-Section and remember obs are traineds surgeons and the C-Section rate has skyrocketed in the past two decades. You can bring a rice sock or a tennis ball to the hospital. You can put a tennis ball on the small of your back on rub on it against the wall. Walk around in labor during contractions-that opens you up and hlsp with the pain a bit. Squatting helps open you up. In other countries they will let you squat to give birth which is natural but that isn’t so encourage in the hospitals here. When you are in labor, gravity is your friend.
Every little noise bothered me in labor-people talking around me. Try not to have bonoxious, loud peoplein you labor room. I also ended up naked for both births. Both times I took off what I was wearing, it made me more comfortable. It also might be nice to get a wet washcloth on your forehead or upper back, lower neck area. Some women liked to have their low backs, massaged, others can’t stand it.
I lived with my mother my first pregnancy and I did not want to pay an extra $100 for lamaze. My mom told me not to