Experts from on obstetric practice committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that water birth may be associated with serious risks to life and health child.
According to doctors, women can actually be useful for immersion in water in the first stage of labor, when they go to battle and opens the cervix. Being in the water can make less painful the process, and the fight in the water are acceptable, provided that the woman is healthy and has a full-term pregnancy is uncomplicated.
As for the stage appearance of the child, the obstetricians and pediatricians strongly against immersion in water. According to them, in this case, an increased risk of infection, damage to the cord, respiratory stress due to the ingress of water into the airways baby, dysregulation of the body temperature, and asphyxia convulsions.
"There are no reliable scientific data on the basis of which to judge the relationship between benefit and harm to the mother and child at birth directly into the water, still exists. At the same time there is evidence that the expulsion of the fetus into the aquatic environment may lead to serious problems that threaten the lives and health of the newborn. Since not yet proven, that the benefits to the mother and child at birth in water prevails over the potential risks should not resort to this method of delivery "- noted experts.
