Women all over the world have been giving birth in water for centuries. But it's only gained popularity within the medical establishment in the last 30 years. Today birthing pools are becoming more available in the labour wards at hospitals, and it is becoming easier to hire all the necessary equipment to have a Water Birth New Jersey at home.
In the past several years, water birth has been gaining popularity mainly because of the many benefits that go with it. It is based on the theory that since a baby spends the first nine months of his or her life in a watery environment - the amniotic sac, so the right of passage of the infant into the world should be easier and gentler for the baby and less stressful for the mother if done through hydro delivery. It is suggested that it significantly reduces the need for epidural or analgesia and intervention.
Why Use This Technique? Hydro has one amazing power - it gives the mom-to-be a chance to relax and to recover from the physical anxiety connected to labor pain. A study published in British Medical Journal proves the advantages of hydro procedures.
Hydro being comforting, relaxing and soothing, is thought to encourage hormones that control stress. Giving delivery in hydro can stimulate the mother's body to produce more pain-inhibiting hormones like endorphins that can assist in pain relief. Warm hydro also encourages more efficient blood flow to the heart and can reduce blood pressure. There is less likely to be a need for an episiotomy after delivery and appears that there are fewer traumas to the perineum that can be felt by the mother.
Further, once it is delivered, the baby can be confused by the strong sounds and unusual smells. Medical studies have come to disprove this claim, confirming that the level of sound reaching the uterus is intense, while new sensations like smells tend to stimulate the baby's brain.
Mums who have had a hydro delivery often say they enjoyed the ability to be able to move freely around in the pool, finding good positions to help their baby pass through the birthing canal. During the pushing stage of delivery, the perineum (the area between the vagina and the anus) may be more relaxed from immersion in hydro. This will allow it to be stretchier, reducing the risk of tears.
Women having a narrow pelvis will have difficulties delivering in the hydro. This option will also be unsuitable for a larger baby, for ladies suffering from diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The lungs of the unborn child are well-developed. Thus, the baby could try to get some air as soon as it is born. In such instances, giving delivery in the hydro will become dangerous as the baby will be taking in hydro rather than air.
Supporters of hydro births say that they would welcome more clinical trials to prove the safety of hydro births. Stories of infections from the hydro and babies drowning come, they say, from those with little or no firsthand experience of hydro births. Also if a baby has trouble breathing after a hydro delivery, it cannot be assumed that the hydro delivery was the cause of the complications.
In the past several years, water birth has been gaining popularity mainly because of the many benefits that go with it. It is based on the theory that since a baby spends the first nine months of his or her life in a watery environment - the amniotic sac, so the right of passage of the infant into the world should be easier and gentler for the baby and less stressful for the mother if done through hydro delivery. It is suggested that it significantly reduces the need for epidural or analgesia and intervention.
Why Use This Technique? Hydro has one amazing power - it gives the mom-to-be a chance to relax and to recover from the physical anxiety connected to labor pain. A study published in British Medical Journal proves the advantages of hydro procedures.
Hydro being comforting, relaxing and soothing, is thought to encourage hormones that control stress. Giving delivery in hydro can stimulate the mother's body to produce more pain-inhibiting hormones like endorphins that can assist in pain relief. Warm hydro also encourages more efficient blood flow to the heart and can reduce blood pressure. There is less likely to be a need for an episiotomy after delivery and appears that there are fewer traumas to the perineum that can be felt by the mother.
Further, once it is delivered, the baby can be confused by the strong sounds and unusual smells. Medical studies have come to disprove this claim, confirming that the level of sound reaching the uterus is intense, while new sensations like smells tend to stimulate the baby's brain.
Mums who have had a hydro delivery often say they enjoyed the ability to be able to move freely around in the pool, finding good positions to help their baby pass through the birthing canal. During the pushing stage of delivery, the perineum (the area between the vagina and the anus) may be more relaxed from immersion in hydro. This will allow it to be stretchier, reducing the risk of tears.
Women having a narrow pelvis will have difficulties delivering in the hydro. This option will also be unsuitable for a larger baby, for ladies suffering from diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The lungs of the unborn child are well-developed. Thus, the baby could try to get some air as soon as it is born. In such instances, giving delivery in the hydro will become dangerous as the baby will be taking in hydro rather than air.
Supporters of hydro births say that they would welcome more clinical trials to prove the safety of hydro births. Stories of infections from the hydro and babies drowning come, they say, from those with little or no firsthand experience of hydro births. Also if a baby has trouble breathing after a hydro delivery, it cannot be assumed that the hydro delivery was the cause of the complications.
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