Think of the cervix like a long turtleneck. The first job of your uterus is to efface or thin out and shorten your cervix. How Nipple Stimulation Can Change Your Cervix:ġ. Doing nipple stimulation for a few minutes is not going to have any effect. If you want it to work, you have to make a commitment and keep at it for an hour at a time. Then I ask, “Did you do it for an hour at a time?” The answer I get is usually, “NO.”
Over the 24 years of teaching childbirth classes, I have found that most people give up easily and quickly. Most Women Do Not Do Nipple Stimulation Long Enough to be Effective! If you don’t stick with it, and do it for a long period of time, it will do nothing much. If you do it right, it can really affect your labor by making it shorter and probably a bit easier. If you’re not quite at the 40 week mark in your pregnancy, nipple stimulation can help prepare your cervix for labor. A ripening cervix will become more elastic, thin out and shorten, and begin to open or dilate.ĭo not do nipple stimulation until you are 37-38 weeks. Those contractions will help your cervix to ripen. Oxytocin is the hormone that causes contractions.
Nipple stimulation causes your body to produce oxytocin. If you are past your due date by a few days up to almost two weeks, it can cause labor to begin. this is one effective natural induction of labor technique. The answer is both yes and no! Depending on how many weeks along you are in your pregnancy, nipple stimulation can have an effect on your cervix and your uterus.
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