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Letter to the editor re: spa bath

Abstract:

In September 1989 a spa bath was fitted into the Delivery Suite at Wanganui Women's Unit. After two years of use, and many gallons of water later, we thought it was about time we evaluated the spa bath. The use of warm water, i.e. bath/spa etc, as a form of comfort/pain relief for labouring women is in my opinion undervalued and very difficult to evaluate. One of the measurable ways to do this was to see if the spa bath had affected the amount of narcotic analgesia used.

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labouring in water, water birth