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• Facilitates a dysfunctional labor by stimulating dilation of cervix
• Can speed up normal labors, sometimes resulting in less than a two to four-hour birth in total
• Many experience more rapid second stage with baby emerging within a few pushes, also known as the 'fetus ejection reflex' (term by Dr. Michel Odent)
• Effective tool to easing the woman into and through transition to pushing
• More trust in the process by feeling of weightlessness allows woman to concentrate on letting her body do what it was designed to do
• Water labor or birth can result in lower adrenaline, (fight or flight response) levels
• Warm water stops false labor contractions
• Assists pushing to an easier place
• Reaching another state of consciousness where fears and resistances are released or dissolved
• Sound of water running or the jets on belly or back create more endorphin secretion
• Clean up is easier with less mess
• Empowering experience for mother without drugs, no surgical procedure, moving in any position, developing inner strength and power enriching her life forever
• Family relationships empowered with mother in less pain; father takes more active role in birth experience resulting in deeper bonding and a more enhanced relationship the rest of their lives
• Parent-child interactions are enhanced by a positive experience in her body/mind/spirit, less painful, gentle approach in bringing child to the planet
• Reduction of Cesareans
• Mother or father can more readily catch her baby
• Bacteria is dissipated in water reducing infection to mother
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