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Anonymous
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Does anyone know if there are any DC area hospitals with tubs for laboring? I heard that Shady Grove does. What about Northern Virginia Hospitals or other hospitals?
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Anonymous
| I asked my OB doc about the tubs/whirlpools at the first visit. I was a swimmer during my childhood and when I was a teenager. I love to swim, I love the water because of its calming effects. GWU Hospital doesn't have the pools. Unfortunately, I don't have info from hospitals in NoVA. |
Anonymous
| Virginia Hospital Center doesn't either. |
Anonymous
| Georgetown has tubs and allows their use in labor. |
Anonymous
| Loudoun Hospital does have tubs to labor in. It was awesome!! |
Anonymous
| Shady Grove has tubs in all the labor rooms, which you can use during labor. However, they are not big enough for a water birth. |
Anonymous
| I'm surprised that there don't seem to be a lot of hospitals in the area with this option--to me it seems like a reallly popular feature to have. I live in DC proper and would like to have a tub/whirpool option available when I give birth--Shady Grove and Loudon are a bit too far for me. Does anyone know if any of the hopsitals in DC or realitively closer in--like VHC or INOVA Alexandria--have tubs/whirpools? |
Anonymous
| PP here--just saw that Georgetown does have tubs--that's good to know. |
Anonymous
| OP here-thanks for all the info. It is strange that there aren't more hospitals with tubs--seems like it would be a simple, popular thing to have. It's also strange how few midwives or midwife/obgyn practices that deliver in hospitals here, considering it's a large urban area. My sister in law gave birth 16 years ago in Madison, WI, and they have a birthing center inside the hospital with midwives and obs, it's part of the university's midwife training program. SHe had a great experience with it. Of course Madison is very granola and progressive compared to DC so I guess that makes sense that they have something like that. |
Anonymous
| You can labor (and deliver, if you want) in whirlpool tubs with the midwives at the Family Health & Birth Center (aka DC Birth Center). |