What are the most common reason women want to labor and/or give birth in water?
The most common reason women like the water is because it feels good. Water helps women cope with the sensations and surges of labor and birth. Many women report that the water enables them to override the epidural. In fact, when speaking with a woman whose labor I attended, I noted, “From my observations of you during labor, if you had not had the tub available, I believe there was an 80 percent chance you would have gotten an epidural.” “Eighty!” She exclaimed back, “200 percent I would have gotten the epidural.
