About Us
About Waterbirth Solutions
About Waterbirth Solutions
We are America's exclusive distributor of Birth Pool in a Box and Edel Immersys birth pools — the UK's most trusted birth pool brand, used in hospitals, birth centers, and homes across the United States and around the world.
For almost 2 decades we have been at the heart of the US waterbirth community — supplying independent midwives attending intimate home births, birth centers building their programs, and hospital health systems installing permanent waterbirth suites in their labor and delivery units. From coast to coast, the birth pools trusted by America's birth professionals come from us.
We are a small, women-owned business. And waterbirth is not just what we sell — it is what we believe in.
Our Story
We employed water during the homebirth of our daughter in 2006 and our son in 2009. Having a deep, sturdy tub enabled our baby to enter the world naturally and gently. We believe that water is the best possible tool to achieve a natural birth. Coupled with a wonderful midwife and/or doula, water provides a beautiful birthing experience.
That personal experience is at the heart of everything we do. We didn't stumble into the birth pool business — we came to it through birth itself. Through the lived experience of what it feels like to labor in water, to feel that warmth and weightlessness, to welcome a baby into a calm and gentle world.
What Makes Us Different
We are specialists. Waterbirth is not a category we carry alongside thousands of other products — it is everything we carry. Every conversation we have, every product we stock, every decision we make is entirely focused on birth pools and waterbirth supplies.
When you contact us with a question — whether you are a first-time parent wondering which pool to choose or a hospital administrator planning a new waterbirth program — you reach people who know this world inside and out. We have spent over ten years answering every question imaginable about birth pool setup, water temperature, liner fitting, hospital installation, and everything in between. There is no birth pool question we haven't heard and no problem we haven't solved.
We are the only authorized US source for Birth Pool in a Box and Edel Immersys products. When you buy from us you are buying directly from the source — with full manufacturer quality assurance, every safety certification intact, and the deepest possible product expertise behind your purchase.
Our Community
We are proud to be part of the US waterbirth movement — a movement we have watched grow from a niche birth choice into hospital labor and delivery units across the country. We have been part of thousands of birth stories. We have supplied the programs, supported the professionals, and been present — in the form of a birth pool — at some of the most profound moments in families' lives.
We believe that every family deserves access to the birth they want. We believe in the power of water to transform the birth experience. And we believe that the work we do — getting the right pools into the right hands with the right support behind them — genuinely matters.
Every Customer Counts
We are a small, dedicated team and we take that personally. When you order from Waterbirth Solutions you are not a number in a fulfillment system. You are a family preparing for one of the most important days of your life, and we treat every order with exactly that level of care.
We are here Monday through Friday, 9am-4:30pm Pacific Time. Call us at 360-385-1774 or email info@waterbirthsolutions.com — and reach a real person who genuinely loves what they do.
We would be honored to be part of your birth story.
About Owner, Marla Althouse
Pregnant with our first child at 38, words a friend told me over 10 years before came alive. We were drinking tea on her couch where a Midwife had caught both her girls and while I thought she was crazy at the time, the description of an empowering, beautiful birth stuck with me.
I had recently lost my best friend, my mother, and I needed help and love to navigate this unknown territory. I was scared as I started my search for a Midwife and Waterbirth.
I found the education, empowerment and bonding that I needed in a small Midwife practice. Water was critical for managing my pain and gave me mobility to labor my way. We had a beautiful Home Birth and my once-skeptical husband is now a vocal Home Birth advocate!
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