Water births provide 'clear benefits' for healthy mums and newborns with fewer complications. 🤰 Compared with standard care, a water birth significantly reduced the use of epidurals as well as pain and heavy bleeding after the birth, researchers found.
provide “clear benefits” for healthy mothers and their newborns, with fewer interventions and complications during and after the birth than standard care, researchers believe.
The studies included a broad range of interventions and outcomes, including induced labour, artificial breaking of waters, stimulation of labour and epidural use among many others. “Water immersion can significantly increase the likelihood of an intact perineum and reduce episiotomy, an intervention which offers no perineal or fetal benefit, can increase postnatal pain, anxiety, and impact negatively on a woman’s birth experience,” they concluded.
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