Water Birth

Description: Giving birth in warm water can help women relax in order to relieve pain such as: backache, aching muscles, strenuous ... more

Water Birth ... exercise, or menstrual pain. More and more women are turning on the warm water tap during labour and birth.

Newest Review: ... blood pressure is certainly a very good thing though! When You Can’t Have a Water Birth There are a number of factors that ... more

... would give any midwife concerns over a water birth, and it’s a very good thing if you can listen to your midwife if he or she thinks a water birth wouldn’t be a good idea. Some of those things they might worry about include: A breech baby High blood pressure or raised temperature in the mother Un-established labour Foetal distress Maternal bleeding Meconium in amniotic fluid Generally as long as mum is fit and well and baby is doing fine, water birth is a great option. Not all hospitals have facilities for such ...more

Price Comparison for Water Birth

	Choosing Waterbirth: Reclaiming the SacredPower of Birth Pages: 192, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Hampton Road ... Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48	£ 24.53
	Our Water Baby Pages: 32, Hardcover, The Good Birth Company Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48	£ 9.69	Free! within 24 hours
	Waterbirth: An Attitude to Care Pages: 176, Edition: 2, Paperback, Books for Midwives Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48	£ 38.46
	Water Birth: A Midwife's Perspective Pages: 256, Paperback, Greenwood Press Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48	£ 19.95	Free! within 3 to 5 weeks
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Water Birth: NOT ANOTHER HALLOWEEN HORROR STORY! (3111 words)
by - written on 29/10/07 (Very useful, 161 readings)
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The Wonders of a Water Birth Introduction When I found out I was pregnant it took me a little while to get over the shock of it all, but once I did, and began to think ahead to the birth, I knew instinctively that as well as having a completely natural birth, I wanted to incorporate water somewhere into proceedings. Getting a completely drug free labour and birth can be a difficult thing these days, when giving birth continues to be seen as a medical undertaking requiring hospitals, doctors, drugs by the bucketful and lots of medical precautions “just in case”. The medical society seems to easily forget that we of the female of the ... Read the complete review