Empowered: Water Birth

Unfortunately, the role of obstetrics has never been to help women give birth. There is a big difference between the medical discipline we call “obstetrics” and something completely different, the art of midwifery. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them. ~Michael Odent, MD

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Empowered: Water Birth

Waterbirth International

http://www.waterbirth.org

A great resource for so much regarding waterbirth.

Unattended Waterbirth Video

I am always in awe of unattended childbirth. I admire these families for their complete trust in birth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlvbSCIoiAs

Waterbirths: A Comparative Study

A Prospective Study on More than 2,000 Waterbirths

By Verena Geissbuhler and Jakob Eberhard (Switzerland)

Waterbirths demonstrate advantages such as fewer episiotomies, higher rates of intact perineum, lower blood loss and lower use of painkillers.

Randomised controlled trial of labouring in water compared with standard of augmentation for management of dystocia in first stage of labour

Elizabeth R Cluett, Ruth M Pickering, Kathryn Getliffe, Nigel James St George Saunders

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of labouring in water during first stage of labour on rates of epidural analgesia and operative delivery in nulliparous women with dystocia.

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