Nipple Stimulation for Labor Induction

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Delivery Delayed

Treatments: Other: nipple stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03025503

NippleStim-HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will examine the use of nipple stimulation for cervical ripening in women who present to the labor and delivery ward after their water has broken but have a contraindication to prostaglandins.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Week 37 + 0 and on
• PROM (premature rupture of membranes)
• Multiparity (birth sixth or higher) or TOLAC (trial of labor after Caesarean section)
• Not in active labor - without regular contractions fetal monitor, cervical dilation < 4 cm and effacement < 80%.

Exclusion criteria

• Water break > 24 hours at the time of admission to the delivery room
• Active vaginal bleeding with suspected placental abruption
• Maternal fever
• Multifetal pregnancy
• Women with contraindication for vaginal birth
• Preeclampsia
• IUGR (intrauterine growth restriction)
• Macrosomia
• Non-reassuring fetal heart tracing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

nipple stimulation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: nipple stimulation

no intervention

No Intervention group