A case of water birth

Park, Moon Il; Shin, Dong Yul; Bae, Jong Woon; Kim, Hyun Hee; Chung, Sung Ro; Kim, Kyoung Hun; Moon, Soo Jee

Abstract

Recently, water birth - labor and/or delivery under warm water - is acceptable and natural to many foreign countries as a method of gentle birth. Although some limitations after water birth were reported, a recent international conference explored many of the issuses and indicated the potential scale and the advantages for its inclusion among the options for labor and delivery under water. We experienced a case of water birth who underwent labor and delivery under water. She delivered normal healthy female baby without conventional episiotomy. No obstetrical ans fetal complications were observed during entire procedure of water birth. So, we report this case with brief review of the literatures.