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Great Bend Regional Hospital Celebrates First Year with Water Birth

Congratulations to Toni and Paul Lovett on the first water birth at Great Bend Regional   Hospital July 9th. She says... “everything went exactly the way we outlined it in our birth plan.” Samantha Lovett is her third child born in an underwater environment. “At Great Bend Regional Hospital, we are pretty open minded to most birth plans that moms want, our nursing staff is very supportive of this technique,” stated Dr. Roger Marshall, OBGYN. All four of Great Bend Regional Hospital’s Birthing Rooms are private suites and have Jacuzzi tubs for the care and comfort of the mother to be. Over the past 25 years water births have become more popular. The procedure is promoted primarily as a means of decreasing maternal discomfort.