Welcoming Water WITH FJORDBLINK® BIRTH POOL Supporting a normal birth

WARM WATER TO SUPPORT NORMAL BIRTH As a professional, it is important that you are comfortable with the equipment that you use. In a FJORDBLINK® Birth Pool you can offer the mother warm water as painrelief and a safe waterbirth as the product is: • ERGONOMIC AND VARIABLE The birth Pool can be raised and lowered and offers you a freedom of movement as it is accessible from all sides for you to get close to the mother. • SAFE AND FUNCTIONAL It is easy and quick to evacuate the mother from the pool. You need not wait. You need no lift. • FLEXIBLE AND EFFICIENT The birth Pool has wheels and can be...

ERGONOMIC AND VARIABLE We have optimized your workspace so you can maintain a convenient and ergonomically correct posture when assisting around a birth pool. You can continuously adjust the hight of the birth pool. The silent lifting/lowering system offers you an optimal working position that suits your personal height. The rounded and smooth edges and stability, makes it comfortable and safe to lean against and over the tub. The bottom frame and sidepanels surrounding the pool allow room for your knees and feet. The supply unit is mounted in the floor in the middle of the room (or up against...

SAFE AND FUNCTIONAL You can evacuate a woman from the birth pool immediately if necessary. The birth pool is designed to resolve the situation. Heilig Geist-Krankenhaus, Köln – Foto Tim Frisenhagen

Sikkert og funktionelt Fjordblink Fødekar er udformet så du kan evakuere en kvinde omgående, hvis det er nødvendigt. You need not empty the birth pool in order to evacuate the mother. The buoyancy and friction effect of the Sikkert og funktionelt water helps Fjordblink Fødekar er udformet så du kan evakuere en kvinde omgående, hvis det er nød- the process and saves time. vendigt. Du skal ikke tømme karret for vand. Vandets opdrift og glideeffekt hjælper processen og sparer tid. Place a bed at the head end of the pool. Placer et leje ved karrets hovedende. Fjordblink Fødekar er udformet så du...

COMFORTABLE AND SPACIOUS The mother’s needs for comfort and spaciousness are met in this Birth Pool. Fjordblink ® Birth Pools are developed and designed in collaboration with Danish midwives for more than 25 years. SMART DESIGN The rounded edges are comfortable to use as support in various birthing positions. Integrated sitting and resting surfaces and non-slip foot rests facilitate getting in and out of the pool and also serve as support for the mother. Here there is room for the mother to choose whether she wants to lie, sit, squat or kneel.

Use the pool’s raising and lowering function actively. The birth pool serves as an integrated piece of furniture with multiple functions. The smoothly rounded panels and edges make it possible to get close to the mother. There is plenty of room to find different rest and birth positions and the comfortable working conditions make it easy for the midwife to provide the optimum assistance. COPYRIGHT FJORDBLINK® Medical ApS

HYGIENIC AND USER FRIENDLY You can feel confident using this product because it has been tested, is easy to clean and there is no risk of backflow of contaminated water. In regular bathtubs, there is a risk of contamination, if you open the bottom valve to release water and top up with clean warm water while the mother is in the pool. The same applies if you use birth pools mounted with a regular water trap. We’ve tested it and we know for sure that you therefore should have a birth pool fitted with a check valve which ensures that there is no backflow of dirty and stagnant water. Our pool is...

The supply unit serves as a docking station for the birth pool All control functions of the pool, are gathered in the supply unit: • Water filling and showering function • Adjusting the water temperature • Operating the pool’s lifting/lowering function (this may also be carried out on the enclosed hand-held remote control) • Opening and closing the dranage system valve, which functions auto matically but can be controlled and managed through the supply unit operating panel • Activation of birth pool wheels • The shower head can be cleaned in the instrument washing machine at 80 degrees Celsius...

FLEXIBLE AND EFFICIENT The Fjordblink ® Birth Pool gives you the possibility to arrange the delivery room for the current and individual needs: • One minute the delivery room is arranged as a birth clinic, as you effortlessly wheel the birth pool into the delivery room. • The next minute the delivery room may be arranged as a special delivery unit as you wheel out the birth pool and releasing floor space for what may be prioritized. • The same Fjordblink® Birth Pool can therefor be used in different delivery rooms where there is a Fjordblink® Supply Unit installed. • You can optimize your working...

It is Fjordblink ® Medical’s mission to optimize the physical conditions at water births, and promote pain-relieved water birth by producing and selling birth pools that meet the highest standards of hygiene, comfort and ergonomics. Fjordblink® Birth Pool is developed as a Medical Device and the company FJORDBLINK® Medical ApS is certified according to DS/EN ISO 13485 Medical Devices, and fulfills following directives: FJORDBLINK Medical ApS is certifiedinaccordanceto DS/EN: ISO 13485 Medical Devices COPYRIGHT FJORDBLINK® Medical ApS

FJORDBLINKWelcoming Water Grafik og produktion: www.graphiareklame.dk FAKTA Fjordblink ® Medical has in cooperation with Danish midwifes developed the Fjordblink ® Birth Pool, giving You the possibility to support safe labor in water. The pool has been used with good results for more than two decades in several countries. Fjordblink Medical Aps Ringvejen 2A • DK - 9560 Hadsund +45 40 74 05 23 • [email protected] www.fjordblink.com