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



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