Hey Ourlux

the fear of the baby 'drowning' as a result of water birth is a common misconception...and as Michael indicated the baby does not take a breath in the water environment as there is not enough of an environmental change to stimulate the first breath (stimulated by touch, light, sound and change in temperature)...in fact if a baby is left under water they would not drown but rather asphyxiate (did I spell that correctly?)...its is also the surface tension of the water that inhibits the first breath

another common misconception is that the water does have to be at a specific temp (sorry Michael )...health care providers try to monitor the water temp, as another means of control in the labor/birth process...
research actually indicates that the laboring women as the temperature regulator of the water temp, will adjust it to meet her own needs...remember that the mother controls the thermodynamics for her baby in utero

women do birth in the ocean (another thread somewhere touches on this about hot/cold as pain relief on the peri)...and still the baby will not drown as the mother births them out of the water promptly after delivery...

xx yogababy