(HealthDay News) -- With all of necessary tasks to prepare for a new baby, you might wonder about the merits of going back to school.

The Nemours Foundation offers these potential benefits from taking a childbirth class:

• Learn about baby's development and a healthy pregnancy.
• Learn about warning signs of a potential problem.
• Learn how to help make pregnancy, labor and delivery as healthy and comfortable as possible.
• Learn techniques to help you breathe and relax.
• Learn how to create a birth plan.
• Learn signs that you're in labor.
• Learn your pain relief options during labor and birth.
• Learn how your partner or birth coach can help.