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Posted by mcdamas in May 22nd, 2008

Worried about delivering a baby?. It’s just natural, especially delivering the first baby. Women having the first experience of doing it will be overwhelmed by a lot of anxiety. In addition, they encounter options of how to deliver their baby; naturally, through Caesar surgery, or through water birth.

Women may opt to deliver their baby naturally. To do so, they must prepare their mental and physical fitness. However, if they are not ready with such an option, women may deliver their baby though Caesar surgery. This way is in the last decade becoming favorable since it offers less pain. Some women choose it also because it gives women a way to avoid experiencing extra stretch on their vagina so that it can prevent it from being wounded.

Water birth

Water birth is a method of delivering a baby in the water. Actually it has no difference from normal method. One thing that makes it different is the process is done in the water. A woman who would like to deliver her baby through this method must soak in a tub full of warm water of 36 - 37°C.

Water birth offers benefits to the women. First, it quickens the process of delivering baby. It takes only about 1,5 to 2 hours compared to the normal process which takes more than 2 hours. Second, the warm water in the tub helps the baby to-be delivered adjust to the new environment easily since the temperature of the water is almost the same as that of the mother’s womb.

Water birth, besides quickening the process and helping the baby adjust to his or her new world easily, reduces the pain and stress of the mother. The warm water can also help the mother feel more relaxed and comfortable because the blood circulates smoothly. Such a relaxed feeling will produce endorphin hormone, the hormone which can reduce stress.

Finally, water birth decreases the risks which might happen during the delivery: death, wound, bleeding, twisted, etc. Above all, a baby who is delivered through water birth will be fresh, clean and less stressed because the warm water makes the vagina more flexible and elastic. That way, the baby can come out smoothly.