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Objective: Evaluate the benefits and the risks for the waterbirth. Methods: It’s a retrospective and unicentric study, type control vs experimental, with a collection of data on folders between 2008 and 2014. We compared women who had a waterbirth (experimental group, n = 333) with those who gave birth on land with or without epidural (control group, n = 345).Results and conclusion: There was a significant decrease of the total labor duration between the waterbirth and the “on land” birth with or without epidural. There was also a reduction of the medical interventions in the water and the land groups without epidural (p |