Just had a thought about water birth.

[McKayz]

I am planning to have a home water birth. Due in 13 days so hopefully it will be happening soon.

With my other labours every now and then the MW used the Doppler to find ans check on the baby's heartbeat.

How does that happen during a water birth? I don't have any intentions of getting out of the pool once I am in it until after baby has been born.

There's a waterproof equivalent! Don't panic. :-)

That is ok then. I was worrying about being asked to keep standing up or to get out.

Worth checking with mw if theirs is waterproof first. the lady I hired my pool from said we should have a condom on standby as often doppler isn't waterproof but the condom will mean they can use it in the water!

I guess it very much depends on how you're progressing. I was in the pool for maybe 5 hours so got out a couple of times for internals and to do a couple of wees , i was drinking a lot of water! Then got out for PROM and had meconium in the waters so not allowed back in the pool.

My MW asked me to stand up between contractions to listen in a couple of times. I was a little bit that she didn't have the waterproof one, but it was actually fine. I wasn't in there all that long, maybe an hour?