Water heating

[Momma2DoubleCuties]

Has anyone used a waterbed heater to heat your birth pool?

I have a fishy pool and was really curious if that would work. It'd be cheaper then getting a pool with a heater in it already thats for sure. I just need ideas and I'm getting close to delivering and worried about not having enough hot water.

[Eaglevoice]

I have one of those lame water heaters that run out of hot water before you finish if you take a long shower. I was really worried about running out of hot water while filling the tub. I had several big pots on hand in case I needed to heat some water on the stove. I used the sevylor pool and I ended up having plenty of hot water to fill it up. I never even used the pots. And once the water started to cool down, my dh would scoop some cold water out of the pool with a big bowl and dump it down the bathtub and we'd turn the hot water back on and fill the pool up some more. It worked just fine for both homebirths.

[StacyL]

Originally Posted by Momma2DoubleCuties

Has anyone used a waterbed heater to heat your birth pool?

I have a fishy pool and was really curious if that would work. It'd be cheaper then getting a pool with a heater in it already thats for sure. I just need ideas and I'm getting close to delivering and worried about not having enough hot water.

Just turn up your water heater and you'll be fine.