Nipple Stimulation for Labor Induction
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Delivery Delayed
- Interventions
- Other: nipple stimulation
- Registration Number
- NCT03025503
- Lead Sponsor
- Hadassah Medical Organization
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 100
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
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description nipple stimulation nipple stimulation -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method progression to active labor as measured by the Bishop score 6 hours
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel
🇮🇱Jerusalem, Israel