Benefits and risks
Of Water Labor/Birth

Advantages for Mother

• More trust in the process by feeling of weightlessness
allows woman to concentrate on letting her body do what it was designed to do
• Water labor or birth can result in lower adrenaline, (fight or flight response) levels
• Warm water stops false labor contractions
• Assists pushing to an easier place
• Reaching another state of consciousness where fears and resistances are released or dissolved
• Sound of water running or the jets on belly or back create more endorphin secretion
• Clean up is easier with less mess
• Empowering experience for mother without drugs, no surgical procedure, moving in any position, developing
inner strength and power enriching her life forever
• Family relationships empowered with mother in less pain; father takes more active role in birth experience resulting
in deeper bonding and a more enhanced relationship the
rest of their lives
• Parent-child interactions are enhanced by a positive experience in her body/mind/spirit, less painful, gentle approach in bringing child to the planet
• Reduction of Cesareans

• Mother or father can more readily catch her baby
• Bacteria is dissipated in water reducing infection to mother

Advantages for Baby

• Easier more gentle transition from one womb of water to
an external womb of water, weightless, warm, wet and soft
• Decreased trauma at birth
• More blood to baby due to better blood circulation in mother
• Baby doesn't receive the invasive stimuli to induce
breathing, which results in less crying, babies after birth
resulting in a calmer, more alert state
• More safe than unsafe alternative in childbirth
• Bacteria is dissipated in the water reducing infection to baby
• Cord cutting after birth is delayed until it stops pulsating
• 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