Dear Friends:
Dear Friends:
 
I have heard this concern for years and never seen any research study  
supporting it.
 
 
.... under no circumstance would I recommend a pregnant women who  is not
already nursing a toddler to pump her breasts. The risk of preterm  
contractions, labor and preterm birth is just too  high.




Women at risk for preterm birth are advised to avoid orgasm.........but  
those are particular women.  All other women can have all the sex they want  to 
have. I have read that oxytocin receptor sites in the uterus don't wake up  
until about 36 weeks postpartum. I know that attempts to induce labor via nipple  
stimulation have proven ineffective....there was a study about this back in 
the  late 80s/early 90s.
 
Sue Cox published a lovely article in Breastfeeding Review about women  
collecting newborn milk by hand expression starting at 31-34 weeks of gestation  to 
bring with them to the hospital if there was a chance the baby would need  
supplementation. Mothers didn't start labor with prenatal collection of  
colustrum.
 
Does anyone have any evidence to support this prohibition?
 
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania USA
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writes:.... under no circumstance would I recommend a pregnant women who is 
notalready nursing a toddler to pump her breasts. The risk of preterm 
contra=ctions, labor and preterm birth is just too high.) 



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