Award Winning Water Birth Pools Designed by the World's Leading Experts Built to last for decades Guaranteed for life “ The combination of evidence based, user- centred, ergonomic design, specialised materials and bespoke manufacturing has resulted in water birth pools that are truly in a class of their own ”. Building Better Healthcare Awards Active Birth Pools

We helped pioneer the use of water for labour and birth by designing the water birth pools that made this revolution in maternity care possible. Our story is one of change, innovation and development. In the mid-1980’s we worked closely with midwives, mothers obstetricians and health and safety experts to develop the world’s first specially designed, hospital grade water birth pool. Since then we’ve continued to evolve our designs, upgrade the materials we use and improve our manufacturing and engineering capabilities to produce water birth pools that are safer and better meet the needs of all...

If you’re looking for a water birth pool we’re uniquely qualified to be of service We’ve achieved success by keeping things simple and focusing on our core principles of Safety, Value and Performance. A passion for excellence and commitment to supporting midwives and helping mothers have a better experience of labour and birth defines our approach. Our unrivalled knowledge and wealth of experience enable us to provide water birth pools that minimise risk, optimise results and maximise value. We’ve supplied thousands of water birth pools to hospitals world-wide over the past 38 years and continuously...

Design We have carefully observed and considered the dynamics at play when mothers and midwives interact with each other and the pool. We’ve employed evidence based, user-centred ergonomic design principles to develop water birth pools that are regarded as the most comfortable, practical and easy-to-use. • Active Birth Pools optimise the benefits of immersion in warm water to give mothers a greater possibility of experiencing physiological labour and natural birth. • As midwives work with our pools on a daily basis we’ve prioritised their comfort and safety. They tell us that our water birth...

Design Active Birth Pools are designed with complex, sensuous forms that make them appealing both physically and psychologically. Form is based on function and pared down to the essence of aesthetic utility. There is a reason for every shape, every curve and every form. • Midwives find our pools extremely comfortable. They sit naturally with their arms resting on the wide rim and their legs under the rim, just like you do at a desk. • Mothers relate to our pools instinctively using the seats and wide rims to rest on, and for support in the positions natural to labour and birth. • The extra-wide,...

Material Ficore® composite, a proprietary material with unique qualities enables us to produce water birth pools that are more beautiful, practical and utilitarian, as well as safer, more economical and sustainable when compared to other birthing pools on the market. FICORE is a solid composite resin not a laminate or bonding. It’s composition and method of processing permit more sharply defined details such as tighter radii and curves. It cannot disintegrate or come apart in the way that fibreglass or acrylic pools can. Water birth pools made from Ficore® have many advantages: 1. Highly polished...

Superior Material = Superior Performance Ficore® composite resin is a material of extra-ordinary properties unique to Active Birth Pools that was developed to minimise problems associated with other materials used in the manufacture of water birth pools. Ficore is a composite of 8 different elements chemically fused during manufacturing, then heat cured at high temperature to create a material that is light in weight but ‘heavy’ in performance. Seamless, one-piece fabrication in Ficore® has enabled us to reinvent the water birth pool and offer you a pool that delivers superior performance, greater...

Functional benefits Unique structural and engineering advantages Water birth pools fabricated in Ficore are stronger, heavier and much more rigid than birthing pools that are made from fibreglass or acrylic. Active Birth Pools have an extremely high degree of structural integrity and will not flex, buckle, bow, or change shape under pressure. Highly polished, ultra-smooth finish The surface is isophthalic neo-pentyl-glycol which makes them 50% harder in comparison with birthing pools produced from other materials. The finish is highly polished, ultra-smooth, tactile and warm to the touch which...

Water Safety and Hygiene The potential for water birth pools to be both a habitat and a delivery medium for harmful bacteria such as Pseudomonas and Legionella is well known. We completely understand this and produce pools made from a superior material with intelligent design and a range of innovations that negate risk and deliver safer birthing environments. • Minimal surface mounted fittings optimise hygiene and give mothers and midwives unobstructed movement around the rim. • Seamless, one-piece construction in Ficore® improves water safety and hygiene by denying bacteria the environment to...

Safety and Manual Handling A deep and abiding understanding of the physicality of labour and birth, coupled with an appreciation of how midwives need to perform while attending mothers has enabled us to design water birth pools that resolve the safety and manual handling risks that are associated with water birth. • Midwives have safe, practical means to carry out emergency evacuations (portable hoist compatible) and monitor mothers. • Mothers use the extra-wide rim sit on and swivel into the pool staying grounded at all times for a safe transition from land to water. • Midwives report better...

Active II Water Birth Pool Judges at the Building Better Healthcare awards said that the original Active Birth Pool was an incomparable combination of intelligent design, superior materials and state-of-the-art manufacturing. The latest advancements in design, material and engineering take the new model of this award winning water birth pool to new levels of safety, usability and end-user satisfaction. Speci cations Length: Width: Height: Depth: Weight (empty): Capacity: Material: Guarantee: Active Birth Pools