Waterbirth is giving birth to your baby while submerged in a pool of warm water. It's an excellent way to improve comfort and relaxation during labor and birth.

What are the benefits of waterbirth?

Benefits include: facilitating mobility, speeding up labor, reducing blood pressure, providing pain relief, promoting relaxation, conserving mother's energy, reducing interventions, reducing perineal trauma, and lowering cesarean section rates.

Yes, waterbirth is safe. There are at least four physiological mechanisms that ensure babies don't breathe underwater after birth. Research with thousands of participants has shown that water birth is a safe and satisfying option for moms and babies.

What makes Beginnings Birth Center unique for waterbirths?

Beginnings Birth Center is the only facility in southern Colorado offering water immersion for both labor AND birth. Our staff is trained and certified in water birth through Waterbirth International.

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The warmth of water.
The power of you.

Water birth offers a gentle, deeply supported birth experience — and Beginnings Birth Center is the only facility in southern Colorado offering water immersion for both labor and birth.

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Birth in warm water —
the midwife's epidural

Water birth is giving birth to your baby while submerged in a pool of warm water. Using water immersion is an excellent way to improve comfort and relaxation during labor and birth.

The tub is sometimes called the "midwife's epidural" because it facilitates relaxation so well — it doesn't eliminate pain completely like an epidural, but it provides significant relief and a sense of control that many mothers find transformative.

It can be safe and beneficial for baby to be born in the pool of warm water, coming from the fluid of the womb into the warmth of water before taking their first breath. Many moms — including some of our own staff — say that once they've given birth in water, they wouldn't want to give birth any other way.

Learn more about our beautiful birth rooms and waterbirth tubs →

A gentler welcome into the world

Why families choose
water birth

According to Waterbirth International, the benefits are wide-ranging — for both mother and baby.

Provides significant pain relief and promotes deep relaxation without medication

Speeds up labor and helps conserve the mother's energy for pushing

Reduces blood pressure and lowers the need for drugs and interventions

Gives the mother a private, protected space and feelings of control over her birth

Enables freedom of movement — any position that is comfortable for labor and birth

Reduces perineal trauma, eliminates episiotomies, and lowers cesarean section rates

A gentler transition for baby — from amniotic fluid into warm water before their first breath

Highly rated by mothers — many say they would never give birth any other way

Research-backed — thousands of participants confirming safety and satisfaction

The warmth of water.The power of you.

Birth in warm water —the midwife's epidural

Why families choosewater birth

The warmth of water.
The power of you.

Birth in warm water —
the midwife's epidural

Why families choose
water birth