Birth Tub rental
accessibility
Birth tub rentals are available to both clients and non clients. First comes first serve with reservations. It’s a great option for anyone local!
comfort
Birth pools can be a wonderful and practical way to have a water birth, or a great addition to your comfort measures in labor.
aestHetic
Get the beautiful Earthside Birth Pool that everyone is wanting! It’s beautiful, practical, and keeps you in comfort in your own home.
water births
Birth pools can be a wonderful and practical way to have a water birth, or a great addition to your comfort measures in labor.
• Facilitates mobility and enables the birthing person to assume any position which is comfortable for labor and birth
• Speeds up labor
• Reduces blood pressure
• Gives the birthing person more feelings of control
• Provides significant pain relief
• Promotes relaxation
• Conserves their energy
• Reduces the need for drugs and interventions
• Gives the laboring person a private protected space
• Reduces perineal trauma and eliminates episiotomies
• Reduces cesarean section rates
• Is highly rated by those who have water birth – typically stating they would consider giving birth in water again
• Is highly rated by experienced providers
• Encourages an easier birth for the birthing person and a gentler welcome for baby”
Reported benefits of water labor and waterbirth as listed on waterbirth.org
the details
You’ll get 1 Earthside White Birth Tub which has a stool inside, 4 handles, and a cup holder to keep mama in the most comfort during her labor. This tub measures (inflated): 65.5 in x 59 in x 27 in. and provides professional grade thickness: 0.5 mm to make this the most luxurious experience possible.
You’ll get a disposable lining that you must use, their beautiful lotus floor liner, air pump to fill the tub and a sub pump to empty tub, a floating thermometer, and a debris net. It’s everything you need for your at-home water birth minus the hose and adapter. We can share them in our Amazon Store and help you buy the right one for your home depending on how you will fill your tub!
Costs
$200 to rent the tub with all necessary extras accessories, expect the filling hose and necessary attachment.
This is a pick up/drop off at Looma Studio in Long Beach, CA. There is a $50 delivery fee each way within a 30 mile radius.
Looma clients get free drop off/pick up and a $35 discount!
terms and conditions
The tub becomes available at 37 weeks of pregnancy and it needs to be returned after the birth, no later than two weeks after your Estimated Due Date.
It is kindly requested that you return the tub shortly after the birth even if it is before the end of the rental period.
A refundable deposit of $75 is required. This deposit is due IN ADDITION to the tub rental fee and does not secure a rental reservation. It is retained to protect against damages or improper cleaning.
Additional Costs
Improper cleaning fee: $75 (cleaning instructions are provided – please follow closely, they’re easy)
Late fee: $75/week
Damages/missing items fees: up to $100
Repair tub: approximately $200
Replace sump pump: approximately $60
Replace inflating pump: approximately $70
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The rental includes 4 weeks time, the birth pool, disposable pool liner, air pump to inflate the pool, water pump for emptying, floating thermometer, debris net. Drinking water hose and necessary adapter may be purchased through me or you may pick one up on your own.
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The included rental period is 4 weeks of your choosing. (Typically weeks 38-42, or 37-41).
Additonal weeks can be purchased at $50 per week if pre-arranged. Otherwise, $75 late fee will be incurred.
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If you are a birth client of Looma Birth, I will be happy to bring the pool with me to our final prenatal meeting and take it home at our postpartum visit. If you are not a client pick up and returns are in Looma Birth Long Beach Location. If I am processing your placenta for encapsulation you will still need to pick up the pool, but I can take it back at the time I drop off your placenta package.
Optionally delivery and pick up service may be purchased separately for $50 each direction
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The security depsoit is $75. The deposit will be returned after the pool is received and found to be in the same condition it was rented in. Funds are typically returned within 7 days of the pool being returned. If accessories included with the rental are broken or not returned, the cost of replacement will be deducted from the deposit total.
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Bookings Cancelled by 36 weeks will recieve a refund of all but a non refunable $50 booking fee. Bookings cancelled after 36 weeks or after recieving the birth pool are not refundable, except for the security deposit.
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You will need to provide you own hose for filling and emptying the pool, or purchase one as a add on from me. A RV drinking water hose is strongly recomended for filling, as garden hoses can contain lead, BPS's, and other toxic contaminates.
I only provide one sink adapter for filling, so you may need to purchase one to fir your specific sink.
You will be responsible for picking up the pool, (unless paying for pick up delivery service from me), setting it up, taking it down and doing basic cleaning of the pool after use, and returning it to me.
I strongly recommend doing a pratice setup of the pool and familiarizing yourself with it before the start of labor.
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Yes! A dissposable liner must be used with each rental, but I also thouroughly clean and sanitize with hospital grade sanitizer and following strict cleaning and sanitizing protocols at every step of the process.
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If you familiarize yourself with the pool set should take 30-60 minutes, depending mostly on your water pressure. Take down takes around the same amount of time.
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While you do not need to do a thourough sanitizing, please make sure the pool and all componenets are rinsed, free of large particulate or visible blood/fluids, and that everything is dried before packing it back into the box.
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