Birth pools for smaller women?

Why wouldn't you want to turn that into a summer pool? Birthing pools are made of much sturdier stuff than swimming pools and should survive normal summer usage for several years and still be perfectly usuable if you have subsequent births.

Or so I'd think. Here's hoping someone with actual knowledge and a cheap source of little pools comes to answer.

I'm not sure the size matters too much. I birthed in a hot tub which was big enough for 6 people and it was great. We had the fishy pool which is a common birth pool and in retrospect I'm really glad my labour went too fast to fill it because it looked so small.

I say find what you can afford and it'll probably be just fine.

I'm 4'11" and rented an auqadoula. Here are a few picsof me in it to show you how it and my height worked together. They contain nudity, I hope they are allowed? If not,I guess they'll get yanked.Not sure if thathelped or not. I do think that being short was a blessing actually. I could really make use of the walls in my pool. I think that even in a fishy pool it would have been a blessing. I have attended births with very tall women and from my vantage point, it looked like they didn't get to use quite as much space as me. In fact, I was short enough to literally lay almost completely flatand float in it.

Namaste, Tara