New Serenity Birth Centre Makes Waterbirth Provision Breakthrough

The Serenity Birth Centre at City Hospital, part of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, has opened, offering waterbirth facilities available in all five rooms.  myM-link member The Good Birth Company has supplied its Birth Pool in a Box portable birthing pools for three of the rooms,  paired with state-of-the-art plumbing technology for control and safety.

15 women have birthed at Serenity since it opened and one-third of those used Birth Pool in a Box  as their birthing pool. NICE Guidelines for Intrapartum Care (2007) clearly state that all women should be offered water for labour, as the use of water has been proved to reduce interventions and duration of labour, and improve a woman’s satisfaction with her birth. 

Adam Maclean, Director of The Good Birth Company said: “This amazing new facility for the women of Birmingham is a credit to the leaders of maternity services at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust who have taken strong action to implement the NICE guidelines.  They and Serenity Birth Centre are an inspiration to all those who seek to overcome obstacles to making waterbirth more available to women in the UK.”