Birthing pools in North Tyneside

[LouM10]

I am searching and searching on the internet and finding it really hard to find birthing pools available to hire in the north east. Every site I go on, it's all down south. Anybody got any tips or pages they can recommend?

Why hire?

I bought mine from ebay and have used it 3 times so paid less than it would have cost to hire.

Can your MW not recommend anywhere?

Not due to see MW for another 3 weeks and was just getting impatient haha.
Just had a mosey on ebay and that's a good idea. Can you get sterilising equipment for the pump etc?

There's a Baby Roadshow at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday - might be some info/suppliers there....

Aarrgghh. I'm moving house tomorrow so will probs be too exhausted. Damn. Might look on tinternet and see if it's poss. to get some info sent out. Thank you

Lou - ask your CMW, if it's Margaret Charlton who covers most of the coast (Cullercoats/Tynemouth) you'll be in luck as she seems to have more than her fair share of home water births and should be able to point you in the right direction.

Ah. Margaret was off due to a death in the family, so I didn't get to meet her until my 23rd week. I didn't really get on with her and found her to be a bit rude so I'm now going to the drop-in at the Riverside Centre.

All my other apps. I've seen Kathryn Hardy, so hopefully she might know a bit about it as well :/