Water birth

The baby doesn't drown in a water birth because it wont stay more than a few minutes under water, and while it's connected to the mother through the umbilical cord there is no danger since the baby can get its oxygen directly through the unbilical cord.

The specialists suggest that water birth actually reduces the stress of being born compared to a typical delivery where you find yourself in a room with lots of lights and air conditioning (the theatre) after coming out of a warm comfortable place in your mom's belly. Then in the theatre the doctor takes you and cuts the umbilical cord, measures and weighs you away from your mother.
These are traumatic first moments for the baby's life.

With the water birth, the baby comes out into a similar warm water environment. The first moments of their life are much more relaxing. The woman also feels more relaxed in the warm water where the job of giving birth gets easier.

In the bath for the water birth women can adopt different positions, the supine position, on the side, sitting down, on the knees.
The woman gets into the water when the dilation of the uterus neck is at least 2 to 3 centimeters. The woman needs to remain in the water until the moment of the birth. The water stabilize the blood pressure and make the muscles of the perinea more elastic, reducing the chances that the mother may need an episiotomy. The warm water relaxes the skin and reduces the nervous impulses sent by the brain. The machines used in water births are aquatic and monotor the baby and the mother.

Water birth is not recommended in cases of high blood pressure, hypertension, cardiopathy, gestosis and birth before week 34.