International Water-Birth Practices With Recommendations During a Global Pandemic – July 2021 Journal of Perinatal Education
Birth, Bath, and Beyond: The Science and Safety of Water Immersion During Labor and Birth – July 2014 Journal of Perinatal Education
Seven Secrets of Successful Waterbirth – 2012 Article in Essentially MIDIRS
Helping Women Achieve What They Want in a Hospital Birth: Education not Alienation – 2009 Journal of the International Childbirth Education Association
Taking the Plunge – Reevaluating Water Temperature – MIDRIS 2003
Waterbirth: a national retrospective cohort study of factors associated with its use among women in England
Women and waterbirth: A systematic meta-synthesis of qualitative studies. Clews,C.,Church,S., Ekberg,M. – Women and Birth Vol 33, Issue 6, Nov 2020, Pages 566-573
A retrospective comparison of waterbirth outcomes in two United States hospital settings. – Joanne M. Bailey PhD, CNM et al. Birth. 2019;00:1–7.
The Experience of Land and Water Birth Within the American Association of Birth Centers Perinatal Data Registry – 2012-2017 – Carol Snapp, DNSc, et al. Journal of Perinatal Neonatal Nursing 2020
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Vanderlaan, Jennifer, and Priscilla Hall. “Systematic Review of Case Reports of Poor Neonatal Outcomes With Water Immersion During Labor and Birth.” – Neonatal Nursing, vol. 34, no. 4, Dec. 2020, pp. 311–323
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