Health Building Notes – Maternity Care Facilities: Department of Health
A practical buyer’s guide for maternity units, procurement teams, architects, estates departments and healthcare planners. A hospital water birth pool should be selected as part of the complete...
Purchasing a water birth pool is a significant responsibility. The decision should never be based on appearance, price or catalogue features alone. In a maternity unit, a birth...
A practical guide for maternity teams, estates departments, infection-prevention specialists, Water Safety Groups, designers and contractors Core message: A birth pool should be treated as part of the...
A birth pool is a workplace A water birth pool is not simply a vessel for warm water. In a maternity unit it becomes part of the midwife's...
All women no matter what their shape or size will find it exceptionally easy to get into our water birth pools. Mothers don't even think about it -...
The evacuation a collapsed woman is potentially hazardous and poses risk of injury to mother and midwife. If the need for an emergency evacuation arises the midwife should:...
In 1995 we worked with a health service ergonomist and the midwives from Nottingham University Hospital to explore ways in which our water birth pools could be improved...
Hospitals in the United Kingdom began allowing women to use specially designed pools of water for labour and birth during the 1980's. The wide-spread popularity and acceptance of...
Safety comes 1st! Active Birth Pools are Rated No.1 for water safety and infection control standards. This is because the material we use (Ficore) is 5 x harder...
