Blue Lagoon Birth Pools - Hire Costs&Details

Hire your birth pool from Blue Lagoon and receive a free hour long tutorial. This includes practical advice and a powerpoint presentation on the use of water in childbirth.

(This is available for those collecting their pools personally from us or where we are able to deliver the equipment ourselves, and takes place at that time.)

Our portable birth pools can be privately hired for use at home or in hospital. Even if a maternity unit has its own birth pool, it may not be available just when you need it as they have to run a first come first served rule.

Blue Lagoon Birth Pools are primarily used to support labour, but many women also give birth in them (waterbirth).

Hire Details

For only £195 Blue Lagoon Birth Pool’s standard hire package allows you to keep the pool for up to 4 weeks and provides you with all the necessary equipment ...

Attractive hexagonal pool (transported in sections for a few minutes easy assembly)
Strong blue PVC liner
10 metres of new ½ inch input hose-pipe with a universal tap adaptor (or an alternative once we discuss your requirements)
Pool thermometer
Plastic sieve for any debris
Bucket for topping up the pool manually
Small stool (for your birth partner or midwife to sit on next to the pool)
Floating heat retention cover to help control heat loss and humidity
Water Treatment System producing active oxygen which allows you a reasonable extension on the time you can keep the water in the pool. This is provided as a complimentary optional extra as we feel it offers a safety factor regarding hygiene and infection control.
Submersible Pump & output hose-pipe for emptying the pool, - supplied in a separate box
Cleaning Agent (recommended to us by maternity units as ideal to clean the liner).
Guidelines for Assembly & Use

relaxing in a birthpool practising for a waterbirth

Deposit: If booking in advance, a non-refundable £50 deposit is required to reserve your pool. The balance of the full hire fee should be paid three weeks before your hire. Last minute hires must be paid in full at the time of booking.

Damage Retainer deposit: a separate £50 deposit is payable with all hires which is returnable when everything is received back and checked to be in good condition. We prefer a separate cheque for this.

Payment: cheques should be made out to Blue Lagoon Birth Pools and sent with your completed application form (which you can download from our site or email to request one with a brochure).

Transportation: Blue Lagoon has two bases – one in the Northwest in Skelmersdale in Lancashire (near Liverpool and Manchester), and the other in East Anglia in Rendlesham in Suffolk (near Woodbridge and Ipswich).

Since the equipment is designed to fit any standard car, you may choose to transport the birth pool yourself using one of our collection bases in Lancashire or Suffolk. This is a good option as we can answer any last minute questions while demonstrating how the pool fits together, and so on.

If you cannot collect & return the equipment yourself, your Blue Lagoon birth pool can be delivered to you anywhere in the country by carrier for next day delivery (week days only). Currently a standard charge of £40.00 each way is payable for this service.

Sometimes we transport the equipment ourselves (usually if you live within approximately 50 miles of one of our bases). The cost is the same - £40 each way.

‘John was sitting on the stool Blue Lagoon provide, right next to the birth pool. We could touch when I needed it and be very close, or I could float away to the other side. I didn’t want him actually in the pool though, that space was mine! Suddenly, in second stage, it felt completely right to have him in and it was so fulfilling to be together in the pool for the actual birth’.

Birth Pool with accessories

Sundries

Extra days beyond the end of the four week period is @£5.50 per day. Do not worry that you will not be able to keep the pool until the birth. Any extension of the hire period is settled up at the end of your hire.

Extra new input hose-pipe can be supplied @ £1 per metre. Just measure between the taps and where you intend to position the pool and add on a couple of metres to allow for it going down to the floor and up and over the side of the pool far enough for it not to ‘jump out’.

Disposable Liner: Some people prefer to have their own personal pool liner which fits inside the liner supplied with the pool. This can be supplied at a cost of £30.

When to hire your pool

Hire is recommended to begin 2 weeks before your due date. We can sometimes let you have your pool a little early if it is available, at no extra charge

Based on many years experience, we have tailored our birth pool hire package to make it as easy for you as we can.

Feedback over the years has show us that once you get your pool, there is often a great sense of relief that “things are in place”.

Being able to automatically keep your birth pool for up to four weeks, means that should you have your baby around your due date, you have had time to get used to it and after the birth, there is plenty of time to get your pool back to us by the end of hire date, without any sense of pressure on timing.

cartoon relaxing in a birthpool dreaming of a blue lagoon

Don't forget to come on one of our Birth Workshops which we run with a highly qualified midwife, if the dates work out for you!

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