11 December 2017
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There has been many studies and much research undertaken into the benefits of using water for labour and birth, similarly there has been articles written on the subject of using water in labour and how it can help women with pain relief. More research is needed and being undertaken. One of the most significant papers was the 2007 NICE guidelines on intrapartum care which recommended that women should be offered the use of water in labour and since then National Health Service (UK) providers have been increasing their water birth provision and services in order to offer birth pools as part of their standard maternity care, specifically for pain relief in labour.
This has seen a step change in the UK maternity care waterbirth provision and we have seen a large increase in birthing pool installations in UK hospitals and birth centers.
We know using water can help labouring mothers to adopt a more comfortable position, if the birth pool they are using has sufficient space and the water depth is deep enough to allow the mother freedom of movement. Midwives observe that women move easily and spontaneously as they respond to their body’s signals because their buoyancy in water offers them the feeling of weightlessness.
The design of our birthing pools makes it possible for midwives to move easily around the rim of the birth pool on 3 sides and support mothers as they experiment with various labour positions.
The unique moulded control and monitoring device on our birth pool has benefits to both mother and midwife, mothers can move around the birthing pool and use the control point to hold during contractions, we have also noticed that depending on the position women can hold the device with two hands and rest their head on their hands (see image1) This moulded handle also helps midwives by offering them a monitoring point it allow midwives easy access so that they can monitor the baby and check the heartbeat without the midwife having too reach too far which can cause strain on the back. The cut out section is the perfect shape for her arm to extend into the pool onto the mother’s abdomen. (see image2)
Not all pools sold as birthing pools have been designed from the ground up for labour and birth. For more information on our birthing pools, click here
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