Have you imagine that someday you will do a water birth? As this article said that a water birth is exactly what it sounds like, giving birth to your baby underwater. For some of the same reasons you might soak in a warm bath after a hard day, you might be interested in laboring in a warm bath. Warm water decreases your hormone levels, blood pressure, the amount of pain you feel, and adrenalin, the “fight or flight” hormone responsible for making your stress level skyrocket and your blood pressure rise, all while increasing endorphin production, which inhibits pain. Since your perception of pain is influenced by your anxiety level, the amount of pain you experience while bathing also ebbs. You can imagine why that might be appealing while giving birth.
http://www.ririen.com/water-birth/
Expecting mothers here is a good news for you. Medical experts say a new and scientific way of giving birth while in water can reduce labour pain and help insmooth delivery.
Labelled as “water birth” the process entails giving birth in a tub of warm water, which helps ease labour pain at least by 80 per cent.While some women choose to labour in the water and get out for delivery, others decide to stay in water for the delivery as well.
http://www.theindiapost.com/2008/07/07/water-birth-can-reduce-labour-pain/
Water birth is safe if done in a proper way with temperature of water maintained and checked at intervals. The temperature should be maintained between 95 F to 101 F, which is close to body temperature. It helps in various ways because it is said to facilitate dilation and also helps in the reduction of blood pressure. Also since it softens the perineal skin, chances of tear is less. What is amazing is that babies come out smiling as the temperature is close to body temperature and the umbilical cord helps to anchor the baby. Only when the baby is brought out, it starts crying.
http://blog.ourbabysworld.com/is-%E2%80%98water-birth%E2%80%99-really-safe/
Save the Date! Wednesday March 18, 2009 (Gig Harbor, WA)
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Need Contact Hours/CEU’s? Want to know more about waterbirth? Do you know the two new reflexes on the aquatic apgar? Steps to resolve shoulder dystocia in the water? Do you know the indications for water as an intervention in labor?
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