List of Benefits

• Ease of movement and position changes for a more comfortable labor and birth
• Feelings of more control for mother
• Encourages relaxation
• Quickens labor
• Lowers blood pressure
• Ease of movement saves energy
• Significant pain relief
• Reduces cesarean section rates
• Birth is easier for the mother and gentler for the baby
• Reduces complications and the need for drugs and interventions  Provides mother a private space
• Softens perineum and reduces trauma and eliminates episiotomies
• Mothers love waterbirth and choose it for their next baby
• Midwives love it and recommend it to their clients