I'm booked for a homebirth, supposed to have pool supplied by community midwifery team, but they haven't got one in stock at the moment. I'm due in a week, but getting a few signs now (loads of Braxton Hicks, upset stomach, pubic pain suggesting head may be descending) so getting twitchy about whether I'll get one in time.
I have a couple of leads of friends and friends-of-friends who may have inflatable type pools I can borrow, but if I am going to go into labour soon I may not have time to get a liner in time (midwives one came with a new liner included). I've still got the liner from last time, when I hired one of those enormous fibreglass pools. Could I reuse that, even though it'll be much bigger than an inflatable pool? Or could I manage without? Or would that be to antisocial for the pool's real owner? I could scrub it really well afterwards (or, more likely, someone else could! I may be a little busy afterwards).
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How much do liners matter in a birth pool?
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Lovage · 03/10/2008 15:39
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