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March 2022 New midwifery research and studies Water birth in Sweden – a comparative study Waterbirth in low-risk pregnancy: An exploration of women’s experiences Water birth: a national...
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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...
Enthusiasts suggest that labouring in water and waterbirth increase maternal relaxation, reduce analgesia requirements and promote a midwifery model of care. Critics cite the risk of neonatal water...
This article first appeared in Midwifery Today, Issue 115, Autumn 2015. There are many reasons to avoid last-minute cesarean sections that are decided at a phase of real emergency....
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...
Giving birth in water is associated with a reduced risk of excessive bleeding and perineal tearing for mothers and with babies born in water being less likely to...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
Abstract: In light of current societal and professional concerns regarding the medicalisation of childbirth and an apparent clinical culture of anxiety and fear of litigation, emerging evidence emphasises...
Elizabeth Cluett, Ethel Burns This review includes 12 trials (3243 women). Water immersion during the first stage of labour significantly reduced epidural/spinal analgesia requirements, without adversely affecting labour duration, operative...
Immersion in water for pain relief and the risk of intrapartum transfer among low risk nulliparous women: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study Mirjam Lukasse, Rachel Rowe, John...
Maggie Banks - RM, PhD, ADN, RGON The paucity of literature on labour and birth in water with breech- presenting babies highlights a need to share (and document) empirical...
The New Zealand College of Midwives (Inc) supports immersion of women in warm water during labour as a method of pain management. There is no evidence that remaining...
Judy Slome Cohain originally published December 2010 Abstract: A single case of early onset newborn Group B Strep was documented among 4,432 hospital births into water in the...
23 October 2015: Yesie Aprillia S.Si.T, M.Ke Originally published 31 January 2011 In the development of modern obstetrics the most important thing to be performed is the humanization of...
20 November 2015: Since the early 1980s use of immersion in water during labour and birth has been increasingly promoted to enable women to relax, help them cope...
8 December 2015: Rowena Davies, RM, BA 1, 2 Deborah Davis RM, PhD1, 2 Melissa Pearce RM/RN, BNurs, GDipMid, GCertMid, MMidwifery2, 3 Nola Wong, RM/RN2, 3 1. Nursing and...
18 February 2016: Midwives Alliance The MANA and CfM Joint Position Statement on Water Immersion During Labor and Birth is a position paper written for a broad audience including midwives and...
Practice Points Ensure that pregnant women receive high quality care throughout their pregnancy, have a normal childbirth wherever possible, are involved in decisions about what is best for...
Leyla Mollamahmutoğlu,1 Özlem Moraloğlu,1 Şebnem Özyer,1 Filiz Akın Su,1 Rana Karayalçın,1 Necati Hançerlioğlu,1Özlem Uzunlar,1 and Uğur Dilmen2 Objective To document the practice of labour in water, to assess the effects of water immersion during labor...
May 2014 Response to joint American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee’s opinion regarding birthing pool use during labour and waterbirth...
Megan Cooper RM, BHSc (Honours), Jane Warland RM, PhD Helen McCutcheon RM, PhD. Abstract Water immersion for labour and birth is becoming an increasingly attractive option for women....
In light of the publication of recent articles that report the growing demand from women around the world who want to have a natural, drug free, non-medicalised birth...
There is evidence that water emersion in labour offers women a safe and effective form of pain relief in labour to those women who meet the criteria (NICE,...
Regardless of the research question, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) – and the pooling of their results into meta-analyses – are viewed as gold standard for evidence-based care (1)....
High BMI Waterbirth – time for trusts to take the plunge? AIMS Journal Volume 31 No. 2 2019
Waterbirth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Royal College of Midwives Clinical Briefing Sheet
Prospective cohort study of water immersion for labour and birth compared with standard care in an Irish maternity setting Paula L Barry, Lean E McMahon, Ruth AM Banks, Ann M Fergus, Deirdre...
Waterbirth: a national retrospective cohort study of factors associated with its use among women in England H. Aughey,J. Jardine,N. Moitt,K. Fearon,J. Hawdon,D. Pasupathy,I. Urganci,NMPA Project Team &T. Harris...
Background: For women at low risk of childbirth complications, water immersion during labour is a care option in many high income countries. Our aims were (a) to describe maternal...
Background: Water immersion during labour can provide benefits including reduced need for regional analgesia and a shorter labour. However, in the United Kingdom a minority of women use a...
Background: There is limited research examining midwives' education, knowledge and practice around immersion in water for labour or birth. Our aim was to address this gap in evidence and...
