Forty weeks of gestation can be tiresome when the due date is beginning to pass by like the ice cream truck that is no longer as easy to chase down. For some, the late pregnancy process seems as though the contractions are coming and coming with no signs of significant labor.
While there can be some joyous parts to being pregnant, none are more so than meeting the newest addition to one's family, so to help the process along, there are some natural means to induce labor. Some of the better ones include those done with a partner.
Nipple Stimulation Can Lead to Heavy Labor
As will be noted later, the kind of activity that lead to pregnancy will also aid in leading out of it. One such activity is nipple stimulation.
There are many ways to stimulate the nipples. A woman can gently roll and caress her own, which may be preferable, but why leave dad out of the mix? Over the course of the third trimester men can feel rather neglected at times, and aiding in this process may serve as only a small consolation, but just as a starving man will not turn up his nose when being offered a single cracker, husbands are likely to be reluctant only briefly to assist in this process.
The reason this works is the same reason breastfeeding causes the uterus to contract back to its normal state. When the nipples are stimulated, the natural chemical oxytocin is released into the body, resulting in uterine contractions, according to Jessica Hudson's article "Natural Labor Induction Methods" on MaternityCorner.com.
The key to this is to only stimulate the nipples for a limited period of time because the contractions are known to become quite heavy, so consider this a warm-up for the next natural labor induction method.
Love Making Helps Induce Labor
Just as nipple stimulation leads to other things, a man's seed can help get the process of labor going. Not only can making love cause contractions from a resulting orgasm, but the semen will ripen the cervix, acting as a type of gentle dissolving agent.
Women should note that while their men may be very willing to assist in this process, it will get old very fast. Women should offer a kind of feigned enthusiasm, or, at least, some kind of verbal assistance, such as mentioning how great it will be when things get back to the way they were.
While this may not be the most attractive assignment for a women 41 or 42 weeks pregnant, it will speed things along, serving the purpose of ending the current assignment, which is surely less attractive than throwing around a few colorful phrases.
Inducing labor naturally can be done with ease and a partner. With a brief period of nipple stimulation leading into a possibly more brief session of love making, moms and dads will be meeting their newest little darling in no time at all.
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