Patient Satisfaction During Physiological Water or Land Birth: a Prospective Study in an French Tertiary Maternity Unit.

Patient Satisfaction With Physiological Childbirth in Water or on Land a Prospective Study at the Tourcoing Hospital Maternity Unit

A study will be carried out to compare the level of satisfaction and psychological state of women who give birth in water with those who give birth out of water.

The aim is to demonstrate the benefits of water birth and justify its place in the healthcare offering.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Major patient
• Social security beneficiary
• Presence of a companion
• Delivery greater than or equal to 37 weeks of amenorhoea
• Spontaneous labor
• Cephalic presentation
• Physiological delivery by woman's choice according to 2017 HAS criteria (French recommendations)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient under court protection
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Placement of an epidural
• Language barrier
• Unexpected delivery (unwanted by the woman)
• Scarred uterus
• Meconium fluid
• Maternal pathologies: epilepsy, MS (depending on neurological opinion), diabetes (types 1 and 2), herpes infection, HIV, HBV, HCV
• History of delivery hemorrhage > 1L
• History of shoulder dystocia/clavicle fracture
• Metrorrhagia
• Administration of nalbuphine within 2 hours of birth.