Should Water Birth Be Offered as an Option for Childbearing Women?

MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs

Jenna Shaw-Battista is an Associate Health Sciences Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where she serves as Associate Education Director for the Nurse-Midwife/ Women's Health Nurse-Practitioner Program. She can be reached via e-mail at Valerie Huwe is a Perinatal Outreach Educator at the University of California, San Francisco Children's Hospital Outreach Program. She can be reached via e-mail at

Published: December 2016

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