Water birth carries a much lower risk, than is commonly believed, writes “Medical Tribune”. There were no complications in nine hundred of these types of atypical deliveries at the Western clinic included in the study.. According to doctors, the condition of success is the proper course of pregnancy, during which there were no risk factors (e.g.. pelvic position of the fetus). Women giving birth in the bathtub feel pain much less and less often they have a rupture or incision of the perineum.