What type of birth pool?

[Tigger13]

I am hoping to have DC3 at home and am due in 10weeks, Midwife very supportive and suggested it as DS2 I was in active labour 1hour and juts made it to hospital with minutes to spare!.

I would like to try using water for pain relief if possible, I haven't in the past but heard and read lots of positive things about it.

What I am wondering is, is a pool in a box type thing, which is inflatable and you fill it yourself just as good as one you can hire and heats itself and maintains the temperature? Met a lady at Home birth workshop who was planning second at home and has bought an inflatable type hot tub which had a thermostat and could use after once cleaned.

I am concerned about the time to set up a pool in a box style one and was thinking of having it ready inflated and then just need filling, if I had a thermostatic controlled one wouldn't that take just as long to fill and heat? or if i left full with lid on how long could the water stay in there before going into a bacteria soup???

Reluctant to spend huge amounts as may not even end up using, but would love to give it a try if possible.

Any recommendations??

we had a great one both times that was fibreglass oval took about 15 minutes to set it up then half an hour to fill..

we used Splashdown 2nd time and active birth centre first time.

good luck

hi tigger if you interested i have a birth pool in a box that i never got to use with dd as i was overdue, it's the eco pool in a box if you look on birth pool website. It's got all the extras with it. Let me know if you interested at [email protected]. I don't want much for it just want rid of it tbh.

I used la bassine, and it was fab.
we inflated it when I went into labour (takes a couple of minutes if you get the electric pump) and then filled it when midwife arrived and announced I was 8cm
it filled in plenty of time for me to use it. only prob was we forgot to get a thermometer and then the water got too cold so I wasn't allowed to deliver in it.

so, if you do get one then do a trial run to make sure your hot water tank can cope with filling it and if not how long you'll need to allow for it to refill/boil kettles/saucepans of water to use lol

my labour was only 6 hrs start to finish

i used a Birth Pool in a Box - was great, stays warm when cover put over and without it it only loses one degree an hour so you can just take a bucket out and add a warmer one. But we did put it up well in advance and i think it took about half an hour to fill "on the day" (as it turns out my labour was so long we need not have been so organized!) so if you have very quick labours then you might want it all ready to go well beforehand - obviously this requires a space that you won't be needing to use (we used our dining room..). I found it amazing anyway, it was my first baby and a very positive experience, they would have had to drag me out of the pool if i had needed to get out for any reason! All the best

ps if you get a BPIAB then my dh highly recommends hiring the elec pump to empty it - really sped up a rather icky job!

I used birth in a box which was perfect and makes a great pool afterwards to put in the garden although having 'birth in a box' written on the side is a little embarassing, but not as embarassing as next door neighbour delivering it after it had gone next door by mistake. on the front of the delivery box it says 'Own Your Birth'.