Need info on water birth

[helle]

Re. Policy... Hmm... Well, the way it was explained to us at the FBC, was that the Big Decisions are made very high up.

And at a Board Meeting, with many Men of a Certain Age, some of whom are not even medically trained, or at least not obstetrically trained, well... when the idea of 'water birth' gets brought up, the men tend to kinda FREAK OUT and say, "what do you mean, water birth?! How does the baby breath? How can the Ob DELIVER THE BABY?!"

And all sorts of naive, uninformed and pretty ridiculous things like that!

So, water birth gets 'banned until further notice' and then that's pretty much the end of it!

oO;;

Oh dear.

[Rooey5]

I don't know about Sydney, having never lived there, but I'm planning on giving birth at the Monash Medical Birth Centre and they do offer waterbirths as long as an appropriately trained midwife is working. I'm definitely going to use water to aid my pain relief, my midwife sis can't speak highly enough of it!

As for hospitals and their policies, I'm sure some of them are just there to make our (nurses) job more painful! I bet the policy writers earn more than us, too...