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NYC: hospitals that offer water births

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I live in NYC and I'm trying to find a hospital that offers water births. I would really like that safety net of being in a hospital should something go wrong. Someone suggested I try this forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

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Re: NYC: hospitals that offer water births

  • Emerald27Emerald27 member
    I'm not sure that you can do a water birth within a hospital setting, because of sanitation reasons, etc. But plenty of hospitals have large tubs for laboring in...they just require you to get out when you're ready to push.

    I agree with @ClaryPax that you might be better off looking for a birthing center adjacent to a hospital.

    Have you asked your midwife, OB, or doula about birthing options at various locations? I'm sure they're familiar with the rules in all of the places where they practice.

    Best of luck!
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  • nanabanana06nanabanana06
    Emerald27 said:
    I'm not sure that you can do a water birth within a hospital setting, because of sanitation reasons, etc. But plenty of hospitals have large tubs for laboring in...they just require you to get out when you're ready to push. I agree with @ClaryPax that you might be better off looking for a birthing center adjacent to a hospital. Have you asked your midwife, OB, or doula about birthing options at various locations? I'm sure they're familiar with the rules in all of the places where they practice. Best of luck!
    There's a hospital near me that has water birthing rooms. It has a ton of midwives on staff and is very natural birth friendly. It's Catholic so maybe look at some of the Catholic hospitals?
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  • Emerald27Emerald27 member
    @Nana_Osaki06 Very cool! I didn't think you could do a water birth in a hospital. :)
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    @Emerald27 Yup! It's one of the few I've seen. I wanted to give birth there because of that. However, the opened up for VBACs 3 weeks before I had my son. So I had him at the hospital 4 miles away that allowed VBACs first. I was sad cuz I really wanted a water birth. It's also the back up hospital for our local birthing center. OP, I'd look at catholic hospitals and call around a bit. I know there are hospitals that have birthing centers attached to them that are pro water birth/natural birth in NYC. I just cannot name them as I"m not living in that area anymore.
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  • musicalmama5musicalmama5 member
    I'm in New Orleans and the hospital I delivered at allows water births. Mine was supposed to be one but I had to get out in the middle of pushing because DS's heartrate kept dipping and they wanted to monitor him closely. 

    OP, I don't know about NYC though. Good luck!
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  • maryoosamaryoosa member
    Hi I'm a lurker but popping in--- my son is adopted and his birth mom was hoping for a water birth over the summer- there is no hospital in NYC that allows that.  The only hospital birthing center is at St. Luke's Roosevelt - but it's super hard to get "into" the birthing center---meaning they have some super strict requirements for admitting to the birthing center. They have tubs that you can labor in there- but you have to get out to push. Supposedly Bellevue also has a birth center- but it's very rarely used. There is also a birthing center in Bklyn that I believe has water births- however, it has iffy reviews. Good luck!
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  • opheliainwadersopheliainwaders member
    Also, chiming in with a hospital birth in Brooklyn (Methodist in PS)... Be prepared for your hospital to be overcrowded. I labored in triage and delivered in recovery (sorry, recovering moms :-/) because there were no rooms available. A friend f mine delivered in Manhattan (NYU, I think), and labored in the waiting room/hallway with a pillow while in active labor, waiting for a room. All this not to scare you (we both turned out fine!), but to take all of the hospital brochures with a big grain of salt. I theoretically delivered in a place with "homelike" birthing rooms, access to a tub, etc., but I never even saw that. There are,apparently, more pregnant ladies in NYC than there are hospital rooms.
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