Many women feel a water birth allows them to follow their natural birthing instincts. Being in water provides birthing women with privacy and autonomy; while helping them to cope with contractions. Water birth is essentially as simple as it sounds. A woman labours and gives birth while in a tub filled with warm water. At our Birth Center we encourage women to take advantage of this experience in our birthing tubs.

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The benefits of water birth are seemingly endless!  Here are some of our favorites.

Benefits for Baby:

• Provides an environment similar to the amniotic sac.

• Eases the stress of the birth thus increasing reassurance and sense of security.

Water labor and birth is available at home or in our birth center.

• Warm water is soothing, comforting, relaxing.

• Warm water acts a method of pain relief.

• Decreases the incidences of intervention, and thus, Cesarean Sections.

• The effect of buoyancy lessens a mother’s body weight, allowing free movement and new positioning, as well as a sensation of floating.

• Buoyancy promotes more efficient uterine contractions and improved blood circulation resulting in better oxygenation of the uterine muscles, less pain for the mother, and more oxygen for the baby.

• Immersion in water often helps lower high blood pressure caused by anxiety.

• The water seems to reduce stress-related hormones, allowing the mother’s body to produce endorphins which serve as pain-inhibitors.

• Water causes the perineum to become more elastic and relaxed, reducing the incidence and severity of tearing and the need for an episiotomy and stitches.

• As the laboring women relaxes physically, she is able to relax mentally with greater ability to focus on the birth process.

• Since the water provides a greater sense of privacy, it can reduce inhibitions, anxiety, and fears.