What Are The Benefit Of Water Birth For Mother And The Baby?

Below Are The Information Of Water Birth Benefit For Mother And The Baby!!!

Being in the water is naturally relaxing. At the end of the day, you take a bath to calm down and relax the body and soul. Take a warm tub after a hard workout to let your muscles relax. Warm water is a natural relaxing tool that can be used in the same way for water childbirth.

There are many benefits of water birth:

• Promotes relaxation
• Provides significant pain relief
• Reduces blood pressure
• Speeds up labor
• Gives the mother a sense of control
• Allows for easier pushing
• Helps blood circulation
• Provides similar environment for baby as the amniotic fluid
• Eases the stress of birth
• Allows baby to be born in a warm, relaxing environment

The fear of babies taking a breath of air when they're still in the water is the biggest concern you might hear about water birth, but actually the babies don't take their first breath until they're outside the water.

Waterbirth International, explains how this works

There are four main factors that prevent the baby from inhaling water at the time of birth:
1. Prostaglandin E2 levels from the placenta which cause a slowing down or stopping of the fetal breathing movements. When the baby is born and the Prostaglandin level is still high, the baby's muscles for breathing simply don't work, thus engaging the first inhibitory response.

2. Babies are born experiencing mild hypoxia or lack of oxygen. Hypoxia causes apnea and swallowing, not breathing or gasping.

3. Water is a hypotonic solution and lung fluids present in the fetus are hypertonic. So, even if water were to travel in past the larynx, they could not pass into the lungs based on the fact that hypertonic solutions are denser and prevent hypotonic solutions from merging or coming into their presence.

4. The last important inhibitory factor is the Dive Reflex and revolves around the larynx. The larynx is covered all over with chemoreceptors or taste buds. The larynx has five times as many as taste buds as the whole surface of the tongue. So, when a solution hits the back of the throat, passing the larynx, the taste buds interprets what substance it is and the glottis automatically closes and the solution is then swallowed, not inhaled.

For a more complete description, please read Barbara Harper’s Waterbirth Basics