Birth Balance

The largest Water Birth Resource website on the internet with listings of books, tapes, articles, bibliography and links. East Coast Resource Center for USA on facilities and caregivers supporting water immersion and birth. Extensive photography for labor/birth underwater. Disseminating information since 1987. Tub comparisons, links to purchase and rentals. Latest articles and materials related to water birth.

For a comprehensive resource list of midwives, doctors and birth centres throughout the USA, Canada, and internationally, and also to obtain the video Water Baby by Karil Daniels, write to: Karil Daniels

Active Birth Centre 55 Dartmouth Park Road London NW5 1SL Tel: 071 267 3006 Fax: 071 267 5368 Splashdown Water Birth Services 17 Wellington Terrace Harrow-on-the-Hill Middlesex HA1 3EP Tel: 0181-422 9308 (24 hours) Information about this site can be found at: This Internet Address Tranquil Waters 67 Southfield Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 0JP Tel: 0121 429 6813 Information about this company can also be found at:

BabyMoon Website gives details of how to hire a pool with lots of information all about waterbirth, its benefits and how to use a birth pool. They are compiling a reference to resources in our local area, which is Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. Birthworks 4E Brent Mill Trading Estate South Brent Devon TQ10 9YT Tel: 01364 72802 Naissance Naturelle 471 Streetsbrook Road Solihull West Midlands B91 1LA Tel: 0121 705 4598 Elsie Inglis Birth Pool c/o Nadine Edwards 40 Leamington Terrace Edinburgh EH10 4JL Tel: 0131 229 6259