Birthing in a Hot Tub?

Four infant deaths over the past year have infuriated some spokane doctors and raised questions about the wisdom of homestyle birthing. Gary Young's daughter was born September 4th in a hot tub at their health club in the Spokane Valley. They used a Russian method designed to make birth less traumatic by letting infants swim from the mother's amniotic fluid into a warm saline solution before servicing into the world. Underwater oxygen is supplied to the umbilical cord, but the cord's oxygen flow evidently stopped before the newborn's surface. The infant died of oxygen deprivation.