Birthowl’s natural childbirth

• Provides a kind, gentle and loving entrance into this world for the baby
• The women achieve achieve much comfort in the water
• Reduces fear and anxiety
• The body relaxes
• Provides significant pain relief
• Floating in a pool the woman can move unencumbered
• Labour becomes easier
• Speeds up the labour
• The woman can focus better inwardly on giving birth
• Water imparts elasticity to the tissues of the perenium which reduces tearing
• Eliminates episiotomies
• No need for ‘pain-reducing’ drugs
• Reduces the rate of cesarean sections
  ease of the mother tranferred to the child (intricately linked)
• Makes the experience of birthing a positive one
• Water mitigates the sensory overload and shock experienced by the newbornand more benefits are:
• Reduces blood pressure
• Gives mother more feelings of control
• Conserves her energy
• Gives mother a private protected space
• Is highly rated by mothers - women who have given birth in water would do it again
• Is highly rated by experienced providers
• A gentler welcome for babies
• Mother or father can more readily catch her baby
• Bacteria is dissipated in water reducing infection to mother and baby
• Cleaning up is easier
• Moist air assist better breathing for mother specifically if asthmatic
• Conservation of maternal energy
• Less problems with breastfeeding after birth
• Less trauma to mother means less trauma to baby
• Babies brought into a world with less violence have a greater potential to integrate into the world with less violence

Photo by Barbara Backyard