The Big Pool

[ailbhe]

Time to inflate: Under an hour with the footpump.
Time to fill: About an hour, we were bad at timing it.
Time to empty: About three hours with siphon, the last bit bailed.
Time to deflate: Ten minutes or less.
Time it's usable for making me feel better: Hours and hours and hours.

Mind you, the water wastage is serious.

Comments

[gool_duck]

Hours of relief-from-pain are worth the use of water. Especially if other forms of pain-relief might be less advisable. Your comfort is valuable. You not being in as much pain is valuable.
Being in pain is tiring and stressful. You not being too tired and too stressed, that is also valuable.
It will rain again.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Being comfortable in labor is not WASTING WATER.

Please don't undermine yourself! You are worth it, woman! You are WORTH having comfort when you need it.

N.

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

Being comfortable now is not wasting water, either!

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Thank you for adding that - I was reading back through my list and hadn't gotten to the earlier post yet.

N.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Pity there's not a good way to put it in the garden, or into a rain barrel or something, eh? Still, the benefits of a waterbirth are sooooo fantastic!

[rmc28]

It might be wasteful if you were doing it all year round (two of my colleagues had garden hot tubs installed in the last year - now *that* is serious use of water).

Glad it's working.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you not allowed to put anything in it to keep the water clean? Then you could leave it up? ;-)

alison

[ailbhe]

It would put us 4 hours away from being able to use it for Real Labour, plus we'd have to keep reheating it somehow. After the birth that would be fine.

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Presumably you're watering the garden/similar greywater use when you empty it out? If so, then getting hours of feeling better is I think worth it. Hours of pampering when you're basically OK, maybe not so much, but my personal morality (fwiw) would say it's absolutely fine at the moment.

PS: hope all goes well!