Waterbirth Water birth has been recorded as being practiced since the 18oos. This therapy places the woman in a bath or pool of water where the baby is actually born underwater (Davies et al., 2014). This practice became water immersion, but remains controversial with research providing conflicting information (Davies et al., 2014). Today water births are not mainstream and are restricted to women with a low risk pregnancy even though there is a paucity of research in this area with most research being case studies Young and Kruske (2013) did offer some evidence towards debunking the five areas of concern; risk of neonatal aspira- tion, neonatal and maternal infection, neonatal and maternal thermoregulation, and skills of attending midwives.very popular in the 198os as it offered the benefits of buoyancy as described with