When babies are treated roughly and violently at birth it causes pain and trauma. Babies who are treated calmly and gently at birth cry less.
June, 2010:
Waterbirth
Water during labour diminishes the experience of pain as well as enabling a woman to move freely and adopt upright positions for the birth, which utilize the force of gravity. Women’feel less vulnerable and exposed than giving birth on land. The baby, still attached to the umbilical cord, will only breathe when he is lifted out of the water.
