Rubbing or rolling your nipples helps the body release oxytocin

Rubbing or rolling your nipples helps the body release oxytocin. Oxytocin plays a role in arousal, initiating and maintaining labour, and bonding between mother and child. This hormone also makes the womb contract after giving birth, helping it return to its pre-pregnancy size. Stimulating the nipples MAY also help bring on full labour by making contractions stronger and longer. This is helpful if you are already niggling a little. One study published in worldviews evidence based nursing studied 390 women and concluded that the women who carried out nipple stimulation in the group had shorter labours than the ones who didn't. There is no scientifically proven way of starting labour (much of it is anecdotal) but nipple stimulation is a great way of getting things going if you have been in prodromal labour for a while or if the strength of contractions is tapering off. You can use your hands or a breastpump, what ever you are most comfortable with 😊 Avoid nipple stimulation pre 38 weeks. If its going to work, it usually works best at full term and over! . . . . . . . . . #labor #mom #parto #gentlebirth #maternidade #naturalbirth #homebirth #partohumanizado #mother #mama #laboranddelivery #o #partonormal #follow #birthstories #midwifemarley #birth #doula #labour #madiunhitz #nipple #madiunkeren #childbirth #waterbirth #midwife #breastpump #carefour #breastfeeding #baby #madiuncake