Sentences with phrase «underwater births»

These centers join 50 hospitals nationwide that have offered underwater births in the last two years.

Some women's health advocates, while supporting attempts to give women more control over labor and delivery, say they want to see more data about underwater birth before they embrace it.

Most centers that permit underwater births have strict criteria.

An instructor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern, Warshaw reviewed the scientific literature on underwater births before the hospital went ahead with the practice.

While laboring in a warm tub has become more acceptable as a way to cope with pain during labor, actual underwater birth is still unconventional and considered risky.

The University of Chicago expects its first underwater birth later this year.

The American Hospital Association does not track underwater births, but officials there said hospitals are trying to accommodate family's requests for more inclusive, personal care.

A Page One story in Friday's Tribune on underwater births stated that Northwestern Memorial Hospital was the first hospital in Illinois to offer such a delivery.

«The pool becomes an almost through - the - back - door way of saying the woman is in control,» said Barbara Harper, a registered nurse and president of the Global Maternal / Child Health Association, a non-profit women's health and education organization that also rents tubs used for underwater births.

Their joint statement continued, «The evidence to support underwater birth is less clear but complications are seemingly rare.»

-- Review of 2.225 underwater births in a single istitution.

«Intentional» underwater birth could be dangerous.

«Underwater birth is on the radar screen,» said Marion McCartney, past president of the National Association of Childbearing Centers.

Underwater birth is believed to have been practiced for centuries by some of the indigenous people throughout the Pacific, and for decades in the former Soviet Union and parts of Europe.

While the practice has been studied, the kind of research doctors prefer — large - scale studies of pregnant women randomly assigned to have either a conventional or underwater birth — are difficult to complete.