hiring birthing pool to labour in

Just wondering if any ladies out there have done this? I will be having a hospital birth but want to labour at home as long as I can. I love water so am thinking of hiring a birthing pool so I can labour in comfort at home before going to hospital when absolutly neccessary.
Does anyone know hire costs too? I have emailed one company but got no reply.

Thanks in advance

aquabub.co.nz off the top of my head...

I am planning on this too but have not found out how much they are yet...

Yup I hired mine from Aquabub, but as Kelly has put it I never ended up using it - DD2 had other ideas and was born a bit quicker than we were expecting (planned homebirth).

Personally if I was going to hire a birth pool for at home, I'd just stay put - getting out and getting dressed to transfer in heavy labour / possibly transition could be pretty awful IMO and best to stay as relaxed as possible.

Thanks ladies. Once at hospital I will be on monitors and a bed hence my desire to stay at home for as long as poss. MW supports me not sure my ob will but I may not tell her my intention.

Previous C section due to eclampsia is why hospital want full monitoring. Of course if things are turing pear shape I will go straight to hosp but if all is ok then I want to use the birth pool.

Hmm...... how much of a dent in the poswer bill was it? Like over $100?

probably not quite $100, but perhaps would have been if we'd had to keep it warm longer. I ended up needing to go to hospital - which wasn't actually that bad, although my labour had pretty much stalled and I was exhausted by then so was only awake during contractions. We used the pool for about 6 hours, so if everything went smoothly you'd probably have the baby by then.

We emptied the hot water cylinder, as well as running 3 kettles and 2 big pots continually boiling water. I'd guess those were running constantly for maybe an hour and a half, but I was concentrating on the contractions, so I really have no idea!

Hiya

I had a homewaterbirth in Jan. I ended up buying a pool from payless plastics on recommendation form a lady from The Homebirth Association. it cost us $60 and is only about 100mm wider than the actual birth pools.
I think the pool was used for about 5-6 hours. We emptied the hot water cylinder twice and had pots boiling, but we have a gas cooktop, our power bill was about $30 up.

Soemone else in another thread suggested hiring commercial size hot water urns ? That sounds like a good idea

Great idea having a birth pool at home to support your labour prior to going in to hospital!

You can hire a birth pool here: www.wondermum.co.nz

They also have all sorts of pregnancy, birth & breastfeeding natural health support and advice :)