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New labour pool open in Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda

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  • 20-12-2013 7:44pm
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    SanFran07
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    Good news for Mums attending Drogheda. Their 3rd pool is now in operation (the other 2 are in the Midwife Led Unit). It's great to see more mums having access to warm water immersion in labour without having to be in the MLU. :D

    Tracy


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    liliq
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    SanFran07 wrote: »
    Good news for Mums attending Drogheda. Their 3rd pool is now in operation (the other 2 are in the Midwife Led Unit). It's great to see more mums having access to warm water immersion in labour without having to be in the MLU. :D

    Tracy

    So great!
    They must be way ahead with this? The only labour pool in Dublin is in the coombe I think? The rotunda one is in pre labour if a remember correctly!


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    January
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    liliq wrote: »
    So great!
    They must be way ahead with this? The only labour pool in Dublin is in the coombe I think? The rotunda one is in pre labour if a remember correctly!

    I thought they tore the ones in the Rotunda out after the ceiling collapsed last year??

    Do CUMH have labour pools?


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    liliq
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    January wrote: »
    I thought they tore the ones in the Rotunda out after the ceiling collapsed last year??

    Do CUMH have labour pools?

    :eek:
    Our hospitals are so safe...

    I think CUMH do have pools


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    Moonbeam
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    I would have love the opportunity with my 1st to labour in water,2 and 3 were way too fast. I could not survive pregnancy with out a bath to relieve pain.


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    Ginny
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    When I was there in 2012 the Rotunda only had a bath in the annex (pre labour/early labour ward)


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    SanFran07
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    The Coombe is the only Dublin hospital with a labour pool - the Rotunda removed their pool about 2 years ago.


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    SanFran07
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    The official reason given for the removal of the Rotunda pool was that nobody was asking to use it - when Mums enquired further they were told their midwives were not trained in looking after a woman in the pool (but they could look after a woman in the bath next door..).


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    pwurple
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    Cumh has at least one pool. Had a go in one myself.


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