Hi,

Does anyone have any experience of the Birth Pool In A Box.

My partner wants a home birth with a birthing pool, but I am not sure
on what looks like an overgrown paddling pool.

Thanks

Paul

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Paulos0007@googlemail.com says...
> Does anyone have any experience of the Birth Pool In A Box.

Yes :-)

> My partner wants a home birth with a birthing pool, but I am not sure
> on what looks like an overgrown paddling pool.

There's a Yahoo Group called homebirthuk; many of the women there have 
had homebirths using various pools, including quite a lot who've used 
BPIAB. There's also, I think, a review of various pools on 
www.homebirth.org.uk

The Yahoo group is well worth joining for anyone planning a homebirth, 
regardless of whether you want info about pools :-) 

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KVL

Paulos0007@googlemail.com wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience of the Birth Pool In A Box.

Yup.

> My partner wants a home birth with a birthing pool, but I am not sure
> on what looks like an overgrown paddling pool.

We (or rather my partner) failed to actually use the 'birthpoolinnabox' 
which came from the midwives second time around (we hired a birth pool
privately the first time, and it did get used) -- the baby
arrived before we could get the pool filled! (Partially due to my
incompentance as being due to fairly fast labour -- see below.)

However, it works fine & is perfectly safe -- the walls are very firm
when properly inflated and are not squishy at all: Indeed, you don't
want them to be squishy for obvious safety reasons. There's a step
inside for stepping into the birth pool & we put another non-slip step
outside at the same point so one could step in and out of the pool
reasonably easily.

The one piece of advice I do have is to put the liner on *before* you
fully inflate the wall -- it really won't go on if you try and pull it
over the wall of the pool when it's fully inflated, as I found out to
my chagrin when my wife was in labour when I tore it in the process of
trying to get it to fit! If you have left the pool fully inflated
(it's lovely to try it out beforehand and have a nice float -- bit
like having your own hot tub!) then just deflate the top section a
bit, pull the liner on, and then reflate it again.

In short, it works fine, although you do need to have space for the
thing; it takes up more room than a rigid walled birth pool of the
same internal volume because the walls are so thick.

cheers, Phil

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