Aquabubs is part of Amalaika Ltd and we also run online retail websites selling children's clothing and shoes - www.amalaika.com and www.milliemoos.com

We have 8 children ranging from 12 years down to baby Caitlin who was born at home in an Aquabubs pool on 23/10/06. Number 9 is due late June/early July 2008.

Our older 2 girls (no's 1 and 3) were emergency c-sections and so eager to avoid this happening again we looked into ways of making the next birth a natural and enjoyable experience

Being considered high risk it was quite hard to arrange a VBA2C at the time and so used Independent midwives. It was a wonderful experience - but due to being in hospital I wasnt allowed to use the birthing pool.

For our next child I made sure that I was able to use the pool and although it was still a hospital birth, baby Milo was caught by Lesley Hobbs and weighed in at 10lb - another wonderful birth!

Jude was born in a birth centre and was born in the caul under water

I decided to have Fred (no 7) at home because I felt it was safer and avoided the worry about unnecessary intervention and also meant that the whole family could be involved. Fred's pictures are here with a link to his birth story. The pool was so much more comfortable than a hospital pool and I felt fine after 6 hours in it. Kneeling against the sides I found was the best position at the time but in the weeks before labour started it was nice to lounge in the pool in the evening - very relaxing!
 

See baby Caitlin's birth montage here! 

You can see Caitlin's homebirth in full by watching the NCT DVD 'Happy Birth Day'. Contact the NCT for a copy
 

Our 9th baby, Arthur, was born at home in water on 30 June 2008. You can see his birth montage here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShvOSYf_nCs

We decided to hire  this type of pool out because we were so pleased with the way it works and feels - it was nice not having to worry about filling the pool whilst in labour or having to keep the temperature at the correct level because the pool was ready to use when I needed it. The temperature only took a short while to adjust up and down during labour and Phil was pleased that he didn't have to cart buckets of warm water around!

We hope that you will find our personal service agreeable as well as our rental prices. 

We want to promote homebirth both locally and nationally and want others to discover what a great experience it can be. We hope that you enjoy birthing in this type of pool as much as I did!

This is us March 2007!

Links to montages of our family: