The Use of Water in Labor and Birth VIRTUAL Class

The Use of Water in Labor and Birth:

For millennia, humans have sought out natural springs and pools of water for wellness, muscle recovery and relaxation. Women are encouraged to labor in water to ease contractions and to help center their minds on the work of natural childbirth.

New Birth Company's birth suites each have an oversized tub for hydrotherapy during labor, and can enable water birth.

New Birth Company clients seeking to labor in water or enable water birth are required to attend this class and sign a disclosure and waiver.

Topics for this class include;

• Benefits of hydrotherapy during labor
• Safety measures, limitations, and exclusions to using water during labor or birth
• What to expect during a water birth

Attendance at Childbirth Education is highly recommended as a prerequisite/corequisite to this class.

If you have registered in a New Birth Company childbirth class please use the voucher ticket for checkout.

Registration includes one participant and one support person.

Instructions for Virtual Class:

Grab a comfortable chair in your living room and join us for class online!

Using Google Meet, a video conferencing tool, our Instructors engage with students in real time and screen share to present videos and keynote presentations. Bring your questions, we’ve got answers!

Registrants will receive an email invitation to join the Meet the day of class. Please ensure the accuracy of your email address when registering.

Please check spam and bulk email folders for eventbrite and Google Meet emails.

For more information contact us at [email protected]

Please note: If a woman is experiencing or have the following conditions, they may not be able to use the water for labor or birth; untreated communicable blood or skin infections, fever >100 or suspected infection, active genital herpes, non-reassuring fetal heart rate monitoring, excessive vaginal bleeding, hepatitis B antigen or hepatitis C antibody positivity, fear of water or drowning, hesitancy to touch your vagina or baby prior to birth, unable or unwillingness to listen to your body and your midwife. Contraindications for water birth include; pre-term labor, excessive vaginal bleeding, maternal fever >100.4, or suspected maternal infection, morbid obesity, and or any condition which requires continuous fetal heart rate monitoring, untreated blood or skin infection, sedation or epidural, inflexibility in the client.

Event Venue

Online