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Water birth at the Coombe
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12-09-2014 9:07am#1My wife had a baby boy in the Coombe on Monday in the birthing pool. What a fantastic experience. She can't reccomend it enough, she had a complete change in how she felt after she got into the water. From a fathers point of view, it seemed to offer her a huge amount of relief compared to labouring outside the water and that was a huge relief to me.
The staff there couldn't of been any better (unless they had the baby for her!
) and were there to reassure her every step of the way. They have a minimum amount of intervention and leave it to the woman to do what feels natural.
The pool became available just as she was starting to feel the urge to push and a little more than an hour later baby was skin to skin. She done it drug free, not bad for a 9lb2oz baby!
If the pool is available I would recommend giving it a try. The facilities, staff and experience couldn't be any better.
Feel free to ask me any questions
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My wife had a baby boy in the Coombe on Monday in the birthing pool. What a fantastic experience. She can't reccomend it enough, she had a complete change in how she felt after she got into the water. From a fathers point of view, it seemed to offer her a huge amount of relief compared to labouring outside the water and that was a huge relief to me.
The staff there couldn't of been any better (unless they had the baby for her!) and were there to reassure her every step of the way. They have a minimum amount of intervention and leave it to the woman to do what feels natural.
The pool became available just as she was starting to feel the urge to push and a little more than an hour later baby was skin to skin. She done it drug free, not bad for a 9lb2oz baby!
If the pool is available I would recommend giving it a try. The facilities, staff and experience couldn't be any better.
Feel free to ask me any questions
That's great to hear and congratulations on your little baby.
I'm due to give birth to my first there in a few weeks too and would like to use the pool. In fact I really need to keep the fact that I might not get it as a realistic possibility in my head.
I'm trying (for various reasons) to not have an epidural when I deliver the baby and want that pool option open to me in a big way!
Fagashlil maybe we should co ordinate our deliveries accordingly! ;-)0 -
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That's good to hear, am hoping for a water birth in a few weeks. Really hoping the pool is available, I think I've my heart set on it now I'll be devastated if it's not! Haven't heard much about them, but the midwife is all for it, so hoping it all goes to plan.
Make sure you put together a birthplan stating that you wish to labour and deliver in the pool. Have a couple of copies so you can give it to the various midwives you'll be dealing with and let them know as soon as you hit the delivery suite and even before that you wish to try it. I think quite a few people are using it for labouring but not so many for birth.
My wife wants any future babies (fingers crossed) in the water now!:)
Best of luck!Penny Dreadful wrote: »That's great to hear and congratulations on your little baby.
I'm due to give birth to my first there in a few weeks too and would like to use the pool. In fact I really need to keep the fact that I might not get it as a realistic possibility in my head.
I'm trying (for various reasons) to not have an epidural when I deliver the baby and want that pool option open to me in a big way!
Fagashlil maybe we should co ordinate our deliveries accordingly! ;-)
Thank you!
As above make your birthplan available and known from the earliest possible stages.
My wife had hoped to avoid an epidural too but came extremely close due to the pain. Thankfully the pool became available and was a huge help with the pain.
Best of luck with everything!
It seems that the best position to have the baby in the pool is on all fours, this combined with the water will help to reduce any tears if they happen.
You will still get the skin to skin as soon as he is born and I seeing the baby being delivered in this way is truly magical.
There may be an option to allow some extra staff be present for the delivery. I would strongly recommend allowing them remain if you feel up to it. The staff there are wonderful and the more that become experienced in water births than the more chance there will be more water birth facilities for everyone.0 -
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I'm due Oct 7th and come hell or high water this baby is not staying put past that!! Famous last words eh?I'm the exact same, trying to avoid an epidural as my PGP is so bad the physio has reccommend I don't have one to avoid permanent damage. I've this image in my head about how lovely it will all be, so if the pool isn't free I'm screwed! I'm not due till the 8th, so hopefully we don't clash!!
I'm having acupuncture Friday of next week to get things started. Hopefully that will help. Generally it takes about a week from starting acupuncture to delivery which will allow me time to get in and out and have vacated the pool in time for you :-)Make sure you put together a birthplan stating that you wish to labour and deliver in the pool. Have a couple of copies so you can give it to the various midwives you'll be dealing with and let them know as soon as you hit the delivery suite and even before that you wish to try it. I think quite a few people are using it for labouring but not so many for birth.
My wife wants any future babies (fingers crossed) in the water now!:)
Best of luck!
Thank you! As above make your birthplan available and known from the earliest possible stages.
My wife had hoped to avoid an epidural too but came extremely close due to the pain. Thankfully the pool became available and was a huge help with the pain.
Best of luck with everything!
It seems that the best position to have the baby in the pool is on all fours, this combined with the water will help to reduce any tears if they happen.
You will still get the skin to skin as soon as he is born and I seeing the baby being delivered in this way is truly magical.
There may be an option to allow some extra staff be present for the delivery. I would strongly recommend allowing them remain if you feel up to it. The staff there are wonderful and the more that become experienced in water births than the more chance there will be more water birth facilities for everyone.
I broke my coccyx about 18 months ago and the injury was horrendous. Actually I've been interested all along to see how much (if at all) worse giving birth would be.
I have a very high pain threshold, tried and tested, and yet that coccyx break was just awful. Influenced a lot by the time it took to heal and recover too.
The epidural could greatly increase the chances of that old injury being affected again and I could really live without that. It is my main reason for trying to avoid the epidural.
Overall though my plan (such as it is) is very much to go with the flow, hope for the best, but ultimately the only outcome I really want is for myself and my baby to be ok after wards.0 -
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Clare in Exile wrote: »Great to hear that it went well. Wife is due in November at the Coombe. Just a query re the depth of the water in the birthing pool - is it shallow or somewhat deeper? Thanks...
Quite high, it's a biggish bath and would probably be up around chest height when sitting down. It is important to keep the hips in the water during the process.
As her birth partner you will be able to be right beside her during the whole process.
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Hi i am just wondering about the water births in the coombe price wise? Do you have to go private or?My wife had a baby boy in the Coombe on Monday in the birthing pool. What a fantastic experience. She can't reccomend it enough, she had a complete change in how she felt after she got into the water. From a fathers point of view, it seemed to offer her a huge amount of relief compared to labouring outside the water and that was a huge relief to me.
The staff there couldn't of been any better (unless they had the baby for her!) and were there to reassure her every step of the way. They have a minimum amount of intervention and leave it to the woman to do what feels natural.
The pool became available just as she was starting to feel the urge to push and a little more than an hour later baby was skin to skin. She done it drug free, not bad for a 9lb2oz baby!
If the pool is available I would recommend giving it a try. The facilities, staff and experience couldn't be any better.
Feel free to ask me any questions0 -
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