Thinking about a waterbirth...

[*Jessica*]

I am planning for a water birth at Birralee, the maternity ward at Box Hill Hospital.
I just watched a water birth on One Born Every Minute and it was incredible.! Has made me certain that's what I want and am really happy that Box Hill can offer it to me.

I was able to labour in the water at Dandenong but was ordered to get out once the urge to push arrived. But that was 9 years ago so their policy may have changed.

[Smoke Jaguar]

Okay, ladies, if you are at a hospy that allows you to labour in birth but says you can't birth in it and you REALLY want to birth in water BRING YOUR OWN PLUG. They can't take that out, they can only remove the hospital plug. I was speaking to a friend who wanted to stay in the bath at Warragul and she was upset that they made her get out while she was crowning
I'm planning a waterbirth in a few weeks and it's the only way I know how to birth, though I'm sure I'd be fine if I had to do it on dry land I didn't tear with either of them and I had internal grazing only.
Being in water is magic for me, but that applies any day of the week whether I'm birthing or not. I first heard of it when Elle McPherson had her first child. When I realised I was pregnant with DS I knew I'd be waterbirthing, and that led me to HypnoBirthing, which led me to BB