Some women prefer to make like a dolphin and give birth in water.
They think it's more relaxing than a hospital bed and gentler on the baby. Your baby should be just fine. But a study in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal found that water deliveries are just as safe as those on dry land. A pair of researchers from the Institute of Child Health in London looked at all 4,032 water births that occurred in England and Wales from April 1994 through March 1996. The water babies represented a mere 0.6 percent of all deliveries during that period.