Twin Parenting Classes

Hi Ladies,

Am now 20 weeks through my first pregnancy and am expecting twins

Was checking with you guys about Parenting classes for Multiples..Childbirth preparation classes,Parenting Multiples and Breast-feeding Multiples classes. Are all these classes necessary? Are they really helpful?
Please guide me..

Thanks in Advance,
My3

 

Welcome and congrats! I wasn't that lucky to have that many multiples-specific classes in my area. We went to the one and only multiples class I could find (an overview), and while it didn't give a whole lot of brand new information, we were still glad we went. We also did the "normal" breastfeeding and infant care classes, I figure we still need to know the basics of both. Again, we were glad we went to both. Personally, I didn't mess with taking a childbirth class. I have enough friends that have already had kids I already know what is supposed to happen...in theory. Plus I had a lot of friends take the class and say it was a waste of time. If there were a childbirth class specific for multiples around here I would have taken it, though. Good luck!

 

I took a general breast feeding class that I thought was very helpful. I also took a baby care class for multiples. Mostly it was caring for one baby but how to make time for two. I liked that it included a tour of the hospital and they also touched on breast feeding. I'm a scheduled csection so I didn't bother with the childbirth classes.

 

I didn't take any classes :blush: though really wish that I would have taken the parenting multiples class that our hospital offered. Unfortunately they only do it 3x a year for some reason & we missed the class that would have worked for us.
We did just fine without any classes, but they wouldn't have hurt :good:

 

I went to a childbirth/breastfeeding/baby care class while pregnant with our daughter...and it was a complete waste of time. There was no new information, although I'm a big nerd and have a stack of pregnancy/birth books that I read. I'm also an avid googler (not necessarily a good thing ) That being said, it may be worth it to go to a class for multiples, there are obviously huge differences between singleton and twin births, etc.

 

I didn't do any multiples classes. The only one offered near me was 45 minutes away and not offered till the end of my pregnancy, and I had enough trouble just getting to the (closer) childbirth class, which ended when I was about 28 weeks. We had also signed up for a baby care class, and DH wound up going to that one by himself because I was on home bedrest!

I learned more from this site than I could have learned from a class anyway. Someone I know IRL did give me her binder and notes from her Marvelous Multiples class, which was sort of helpful, not in any really hands-on way but just in helping me get a handle on what the issues would be. But really, you learn most of it just by doing.

I would say that a BF class might be helpful if you are planning to BF. I tried and it didn't work out for me, and I'll always wonder if I might have been more successful if I had done more planning beforehand. But it would have to be a BF multiples class, because the advice on how to BF one baby would be very insufficient.