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Factors influencing water immersion during labour: case studies of six maternity units in the UK

K.D.Brainin Founder & Director

Active Birth Pools Resource Centre

Our unrivalled knowledge and wealth of experience enable us to provide water birth pools that minimise risk, optimise results and maximise value. The combination of evidence based, user-centred, ergonomic...

2016 – Launch of the Water Birth Safety Initiative

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...

Improving Birthing Pool Design: Case Study 18 – Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

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...

A landmark in the history of water birth – Michel Odent

August 21, 1999 should be remembered as a landmark in the history of water birth. On that day the British Medical Journal published an unprecedented study about "the perinatal...

Joint statement: Immersion in water during labour and birth – RCOG RCOM

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists/Royal College of Midwives Joint statement No.1 Immersion in water during labour and birth Originally published: 2006 Summary 1.  Both the Royal College...

A comparison of water births and conventional vaginal deliveries

Otigbah CM; Dhanjal MK; Harmsworth G; and others, (July 2000). European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology , vol 91, no 1, July 2000, pp 15-20. Setting, participants,...

Water birth: a review of 848 deliveries and a comparison with other delivery positions

Thoeni A; Holzner J, (2002). International Confederation of Midwives. Midwives and women working together for the family of the world: ICM proceedings CD-ROM Vienna 2002. The Hague: ICM , 2002....

Study confirms… Women who labour in water have lower rate of epidural analgesia

Randomised controlled trial of labouring in water compared with standard of augmentation for management of dystocia in first stage of labour Objectives: To evaluate the impact of labouring...

Evidence on the safety of water birth

9 February 2015 Evidence Based Birth - Rebecca Dekker In April 2014,  waterbirth—an alternative method for pain relief in which a mother gives birth in a tub of...
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