Holly McSpadden responded to "She felt that this was too risky and could stimulate labor. She said that 38 weeks might be acceptable"If that were the case our hospital could save a lot of $ on Pitocin for induction :) We told our patient if she experienced contractions during expressing to stop. Actually we induce a lot of diabetic moms for "big babies" about that early anyway. She never experienced any contractions. It has been 20 years since I have been last employed in the labor/delivery/postpartum unit. Breast/nipple stimulation was a protocol for inducing contractions for prenatal stress test and labor induction for a hospital I worked at in Illinois. So, YES, it does happen. I believe the practice was probably not consistent with producing the 3 contractions needed in 10 minutes for the stress test nor was it time efficient once pitocin and other invasive interventions became commonplace. Angie Kirkwood RN, BSN, IBCLC CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE. This e-mail and attachments (if any) are the sole property of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary, privileged or otherwise prohibited by law from disclosure or re-disclosure. This information is intended solely for the individual(s) or entity(ies) to whom this e-mail or attachments are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, you are prohibited from using, copying, saving or disclosing this information to anyone else. Please destroy the message and any attachments immediately and notify the sender by return e-mail. Thank you. *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome