Sorry for another birthing pool question! I love water as a pain relief technique--I spent as much of my labor with dd1 in the shower at the hospital as I could--but I don't foresee myself wanting to actually PUSH in the tub, though I won't rule it out completely until I see how it feels!
We know someone who rents out a La Bassine pool with all the hosing and a filter (I can't recall what else, but pretty much everything we need) for $50. To dh, the idea of having to clean out a pool afterward was enough for him to say we should just buy the fishy one and throw it out afterward, but once I realized I don't feel I'll want to deliver in it, just labor there, I was thinking it seems like clean-up wouldn't be an issue for the rented one anyway. And we could buy a liner anyway. I just think spending $20 or $30 on the fishy tub, plus needing to buy a hose, would cost us as much as the pool rental anyway for a less awesome pool that's going to be thrown out!
This is probably an easy question, but what would you choose? How hard IS clean-up for a pool if I did deliver in it, with or without a liner? I meant to ask my midwife last night at my appointment but I forgot to put it on my list. Dh is just creeped out by the idea of scrubbing....uh, stuff....out of the pool, and feels like he's not going to want to spend time on it anyway instead of with us. I need some real life experiences to share with him!
We know someone who rents out a La Bassine pool with all the hosing and a filter (I can't recall what else, but pretty much everything we need) for $50. To dh, the idea of having to clean out a pool afterward was enough for him to say we should just buy the fishy one and throw it out afterward, but once I realized I don't feel I'll want to deliver in it, just labor there, I was thinking it seems like clean-up wouldn't be an issue for the rented one anyway. And we could buy a liner anyway. I just think spending $20 or $30 on the fishy tub, plus needing to buy a hose, would cost us as much as the pool rental anyway for a less awesome pool that's going to be thrown out!
This is probably an easy question, but what would you choose? How hard IS clean-up for a pool if I did deliver in it, with or without a liner? I meant to ask my midwife last night at my appointment but I forgot to put it on my list. Dh is just creeped out by the idea of scrubbing....uh, stuff....out of the pool, and feels like he's not going to want to spend time on it anyway instead of with us. I need some real life experiences to share with him!
Well, me and the two kids -- I am making it sound like a hot tub! 
, I did have a tear and their was lots of "birth-gunk" in it, but it all seemed relatively straight fwd and not a hassle at all to clean.
