About Delia - The Founder
Birth educator, mother, advocate and founder of The BirthSpace
Delia Lev Ari is a birth educator, mother of seven, founder of The BirthSpace and creator of the Evia birth pool.
For more than 15 years, she has worked within the world of pregnancy, birth and motherhood — supporting women and families, teaching and advocating for water birth, and working alongside midwives and other birth professionals. Her work has taken different forms over the years, but one question has remained at its heart: what helps a woman feel safe, supported and connected to herself during birth?
As a mother of seven, including two water births, Delia’s understanding of birth is deeply personal too.
Through her own experiences and years spent alongside other women, she came to understand that how a woman gives birth matters — but how she experiences giving birth matters too.
Was she listened to?
Was she respected?
Did she understand what was happening?
Was she part of the decisions being made about her body and her baby?
And through everything happening around her, did she still feel like herself?
These questions have shaped everything that followed.
From birth work to The BirthSpace
Water has been part of Delia’s work for many years. She has seen how warm water can change the atmosphere of labour — creating privacy, freedom of movement, softness and a space for a woman to turn inward.
That work eventually led her into product development and to the creation of Evia — a single-use birth pool designed around the experience of the woman using it, while also considering practicality, hygiene and environmental impact.
The BirthSpace grew from the same thinking.
It is a place for exploring what birth can look like when the woman remains at the centre of her care — wherever she gives birth and however that birth unfolds.
It is also home to an idea Delia calls Whole-Woman Birth Care.
The idea is simple:
A woman arrives at birth as a whole person. She deserves to be cared for that way.
Physical and medical safety are essential. But so are her voice, dignity, emotional safety and sense of self. This isn’t about choosing home birth over hospital birth, water birth over an epidural, or “natural” birth over medical care.
We don’t have to choose between excellent medicine and deeply human care.
Women deserve both.
A note from Delia
I didn’t come to this work through theory.
I came to it through birth — my own, and the many I have witnessed, supported or heard about through years of working alongside women and birth professionals.
The longer I have worked in birth, the less interested I have become in telling women what birth should look like.
I’m much more interested in asking:
What does this woman need?