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Establishing the safety of waterbirth for mothers and their babies: the POOL cohort study with nested qualitative component
Julia Sanders, Christian Barlow, Peter Brocklehurst, Rebecca Cannings-John, Susan Channon, Christopher Gale, Judith Cutter, Jacqueline Hughes, Billie Hunter, Fiona Lugg-Widger, Sarah Milosevic, Rebecca Milton, Leah Morantz, Mary Nolan, Rachel Plachcinski, Shantini Paranjothy, Michael Robling · 9 sections in 9 chapters. Each section is its own page.
Introduction
Methods 1: cohort study
Methods 2: study populations
Results 1: study population
Results 2: primary analysis
Factors influencing the use of birth pools for labour and birth in the United Kingdom
Discussion and conclusions
References
Additional information
Attribution. Julia Sanders; Christian Barlow; Peter Brocklehurst; Rebecca Cannings-John; Susan Channon; Christopher Gale et al. (2026). Establishing the safety of waterbirth for mothers and their babies: the POOL cohort study with nested qualitative component. National Institute for Health and Care Research. Copyright © 2026 Sanders et al. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. NCBI Bookshelf NBK620676. CC BY 4.0. Original source ↗. Text reproduced from the Bookshelf XML without changing wording; figures, images and supplements are not reproduced.