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Legionella management and control procedures: Nottingham University Hospital
Sheffield Teaching Hospital - Birth pool infection control policy
Nottingham University Hospital - Water Birth Guidelines
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust - Water Birth Guideline
Northern Health Trust - Water for labour and birth guideline
NHS Forth Valley - Immersion in water during labour and birth
Your Guide to Water Birth - Northumbria HealthCare Trust
Guidance on design, installation, commissioning, testing, monitoring and operation of water supply systems in healthcare premises. This Health Technical Memorandum (HTM 04-01) has now been revised into 3...
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...
Originally published by Laurie Barclay, MD Medscape Medical News. Jan. 26, 2004 Laboring in water can be helpful in dystocia, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial...
Australian College of Midwives - 2013 This position statement should be read in conjunction with the Australian College of Midwives’ (ACM) position statement for midwives caring for women...
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...
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...
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...
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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,...
In recent years, professional organizations that represent maternal-child health care providers have taken various positions on the recommended use of immersion hydrotherapy during labor and birth. The resulting lack...
Wednesday, 06 July 2022 Oxford Brookes University New analysis of research shows that using a birth pool during labour provides “clear benefits” for healthy mums and their newborn,...
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...
Water birth pools serve a pivotal role in enhancing the experience of physiological labour and natural childbirth for mothers. In fact, they are particularly effective in helping mothers...
Feeling relaxed, secure and in control and being able to move about freely can make it more likely for you to have a quicker and more natural birth....
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...
Background: There is a gap in knowledge and understanding relating to the experiences of women exposed to the opportunity of waterbirth. Our aim was to explore the perceptions and...
Aims: To gather, quality assess, synthesize and interpret the views, feeling, and experiences of women who used water immersion during labour and/or birth. Design: A systematic meta-thematic synthesis and...
Water birth is widely available in English maternity settings for women who are not at increased risk of complications during labour. Immersion in water during labour is associated with...
