The American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) member birth centers have read with concern the recently released ACOG/AAP Committee Opinion, “Immersion in Water during Labor and Delivery”....
Bringing a new life into the world can be a stressful time in a woman’s life: What will the baby need? Will the baby be healthy? What can the mother do to help ensure the baby is healthy? and How can...
This review includes 12 trials (3243 women): eight related to just the first stage of labour: one to early versus late immersion in the first stage of labour; two to the first and...
Kate McCulloh already was at the hospital, in active labor with her second son, when she and her husband, Matt McCord, learned that a birth in water was an option. She dove at the opportunity:
“Hell,...