Aquabirths and Softbirths

07/01/2026

January office clear up, found this lovely bit of archive!

Ruth Weston featuring in an article about the benefits of water and the importance of good support for mums - still pertinent today.

The Telegraph & Argus

05/01/2026

Hope you've had a good holiday!

We are back in the office now ready to answer any queries or provide equipment you need for your birthing pools.

Pictured is one of our elliptical pools. A spacious pool which provides a calm and restful environment for a labouring person.

For more information, or to contact us, visit aquabirths.co.uk/birthing-baths-elliptical/

24/12/2025

To all those celebrating this festive season, Merry Christmas!

This is one of AIMS Christmas cards available in their shop at shop.aims.org.uk along with many useful guides, books, and information on birth.

21/12/2025

Our ethos is to enable every person to have a good birth by designing and making birthing pools that are beautiful to look at, robust and easy to use.

We create a pools that give multiple position options and a safe personal space for you to feel relaxed. All while still enabling partners and mid-wives to give support.

For more information and to get in touch, visit aquabirths.co.uk

17/12/2025

We offer a full service from designing a bath just for you, right through to delivery and installation. Meaning, if you want to just buy a bath you can but we can also deliver and install or provide an onsite consultation or simply plumbing and installation support.
Our service is about providing what you need to make a birthing pool work on your unit.

For more information or to get in-touch, visit: aquabirths.co.uk

15/12/2025

These birthing pools in Wrexham are some examples of our Dunoon model. A compact and smooth birthing bath that caters to all stages from labouring to post-partum.

We also manufacture a hook-in internal step. This is an optional extra best requested at the same time as the bath.

Like all our pools, it is designed with birthing people and midwives in mind. High-quality, good value, and easy to clean and maintain.

12/12/2025

The Deficient Female, Doula Care = Better Outcomes, New Infant Resus Guidelines, The Real Nativity. Plus News and Views... -

By Emma Ashworth and Gemma McKenzie November brought a gamut of headlines screeching about the dangers of a variety of birth decisions, mostly focusing on freebirth and home birth. Several tragic deaths were used as evidence that birth away from obstetrics is not only dangerous, but, according to ...

05/12/2025

Steps to suit your needs.

From steps with wheels that can be easily moved to where they are needed, to fitting them at a specific point, we can make sure that your steps work for you as access and as a perch.

For more information and customisatikn options, visit Aquabirths.co.uk and get in touch.

05/12/2025

We understand that steps are important as an access point and a perch.

We have step options that have wheels so they can be moved easily to where you need them. Alternatively, we can make them to fix where you need them, fitting to the shape.

Whether portability is key or specific entry point, we can customise to what you need.

For more information and to get in touch, visit Aquabirths.co.uk

01/12/2025

"Let be dandelions. Maybe despised but nevertheless cheerful, pernicious, ubiquitous, and everywhere. "

Quote from Born Stroppy by Ruth Weston while talking about working together to make change happen in maternity.

Pictured is our Eliptical birthing pool in Newtown.

24/11/2025

Design and made with input from mothers and midwifes, making sure that our birthing pool designs are what they need and want.

From initial specifications, full-sized prototype to placment, and finish product. Their experience and expertise helped shape the design to suit what users need to feel as comfortable as possible.

24/11/2025

Should doulas be regulated? Cutting preterm births in Australia, Tackling PPH in Zimbabwe, Midwifery Christmas Gifts plus News and Views... -

In September of this year the UK's midwifery and nursing regulator, the NMC, brought out a document which claimed to support the choices of birthing women, but then went on to argue that doulas should be reported to the police and that a case needs to be brought before the court as a way to attempt....