Midwifery & Women’s Health at Elmhurst Clinic
The Birthing Tub @ Elmhurst Clinic
Few locations in the Chicago area offer water birth.
Water for labor and/or birth:
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✴ promotes relaxation of the mother
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✴ reduces anxiety and adrenaline
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✴ relative weightlessness in water
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✴ relaxation of blood vessels
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✴ lower incidence of tearing of the birth canal and episiotomy
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✴ gentler transition to the world for your baby
For more information on waterbirth: go here.
