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
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