Don't get caught by the Induction hype at Xmas time
Learn about the Brain-Uterus and Brain-Breast tissue connection. Ina May Gaskin, famed alternative childbirth-educator and author of Spiritual Midwifery, taught husbands or partners of birthing women to stimulate women's nipples to aid contractions: 'Our group of midwives had known about stimulating birthing women's nipples and used it as a tool for two or three years before we heard that the medical community, in doing experiments, had discovered that there is a powerful endocrine hormone called oxytocin that is produced by the pituitary gland, which can be prompted to bring about contractions of the uterus by stimulation of the breasts.
Women have been using this technique in starting labour or in speeding it up for a long time. If you look at the neurology and biochemistry of childbirth you will see that a woman has within her, her own inner resources to tap into to assist her birthing.