The Use of Water in Labor and Birth

NEW CONTENT! This class will include information about our new Active Birth Pool available in 2022 in our Contemporary birth suite.

The Use of Water in Labor and Birth:

For millennia, humans have sought out natural springs and pools of water for wellness, muscle recovery and relaxation. Women are encouraged to labor in water to ease contractions and to help center their minds on the work of natural childbirth.

New Birth Company's birth suites each have an oversized tub for hydrotherapy during labor, and can enable water birth. Our contemporary suite offers an active birth pool.

New Birth Company clients seeking to labor in water or enable water birth are required to attend this class and sign a use of water consent before utilizing the tub or birth pool.

Topics for this class include;

• Benefits of hydrotherapy during labor
• Safety measures, limitations, and exclusions to using water during labor or birth
• What to expect during a water birth

Attendance at Childbirth Education is highly recommended as a pre/co-requisite to this class.

If you have registered for a New Birth Company Childbirth Class please use the voucher ticket for checkout at no cost.

Registration includes one participant and one support person.

For more information contact us at Educator@newbirthcompany.com

Please note: If a person is experiencing or have the following conditions, they may not be able to use the water for labor or birth; untreated communicable blood or skin infections, fever >100 or suspected infection, active genital herpes, non-reassuring fetal heart rate monitoring, excessive vaginal bleeding, hepatitis B antigen or hepatitis C antibody positivity, fear of water or drowning, elevated BMI, unable or unwillingness to be an active participant in your birth. Contraindications for water birth include; pre-term labor, excessive vaginal bleeding, maternal fever >100.4, or suspected maternal infection, morbid obesity, and or any condition which requires continuous fetal heart rate monitoring, untreated blood or skin infection, sedation or epidural, inflexibility in the client.