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Waterbirth : the background story

More and more hospitals are offering women the chance to use a birthing pool to ease the pain of labour, and even to give birth in. Dr Michael Odent is familiarly known as the obstetrician who introduced the concept of birthing pools and home-like birthing rooms in the 1970s. How long has waterbirth been around? Like many people,…

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