Acupressure to induce labor? Most people think of powerful and toxic drugs when it comes to being induced. Hence, no one ever wants to induce labor. But the best and most pleasant way is to use acupressure to induce labor.

Not only that, acupressure can help in many other ways too, not just for induction. It is great for contraction pain relief, back pain, relaxation, calming the mind and for combating nausea and vomiting.

For these reasons alone labor acupressure should be used by everyone giving birth.

Induce Labor with Acupressure

Acupressure to induce labor is an ancient technique which has been used for thousands of years in the East. The West has been studying it for decades now too and the World Health organisation (WHO) and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have proven it to be safe.

The technique is well recognized these days and increasingly used by pregnancy professionals and mothers alike.

Acupressure points for inducing labor help the cervix dilate, speed up slow early labor, help your baby to descend, and stimulate labor contractions.

Scientific evidence has proven that natural labor induction with acupressure is extremely effective. Stimulation of specific acupressure points induces labor in up to 83% of women within 48 hours, sometimes in 25 minutes.

Labor Acupressure Techniques

Induce labor acupressure is a very simple hands-on technique. It is just about putting pressure on points on your body. You don’t need any experience or specific qualification in order to do it. You don’t need a professional acupressure’ist!

The techniques involve merely applying firm pressure on the acupressure points for a moment. If you can PRESS A SPOT on your skin with your thumb, you can do labor acupressure!

You can massage the acupressure points yourself or get your partner or someone else to do it.

Labor Acupressure Benefits

Research shows that labor acupressure prevents the baby from getting stressed as it makes the labor easier and shorter. Plus, medical intervention is avoided.

The benefits are clear; no side effects and no drugs. Acupressure naturally induces labor, it speeds up a slow early labor, gives pain relief without any effect on the labor and is safe for both the mother and baby.

Labor acupressure is not just for use when you are overdue either. Research shows that labor acupressure significantly shortens the delivery time. Women who use labor acupressure have a delivery time two hours shorter than those who don’t.

Maternity Acupressure – The Book

But where do you get all the labor acupressure information you need? You could spend days going through everything on the internet. But the best way is to just buy the book “Maternity Acupressure”. It’s the no.1 selling online resource for acupressure.

It’s cheap and you can download it instantly. It is very comprehensive and covers everything you need to know.

It comprises 25 techniques and 52 pages of clear step-by-step instructions, photos, and charts that you will not find anywhere else.

Locating and treating the labor acupressure points are described step-by-step, and demonstrated with plenty of photographs.

It shows you how to;

1) Start labor naturally at home

2) Turn a posterior baby

3) Get effective labor pain relief

4) Calm anxiety and nervousness

5) Remove tensions and relax

6) Stop nausea and vomiting

7) Strengthen contractions

Plus it gives you;

7 acupressure techniques that produce a pleasant anaesthetizing effect on contraction pains – WITHOUT medication

the amazing acupressure points that help your cervix dilate and significantly decrease your chances of a Cesarean delivery

techniques to stimulate onset of labor contractions to start and to strengthen contractions during labor when necessary

Prime your body for labor and delivery by using these labor acupressure techniques.

If you are looking for a safe and effective way to induce labor naturally at home, then I highly recommend this book.

To ensure your birth is safe, natural and with no medical intervention, use acupressure to induce labor and also for pain relief and relaxation. Gain the power to induce labor naturally and easily by yourself and have a normal childbirth experience.

Click on the banner below to get “Maternity Acupressure“.

How to get pregnant? It’s a question many women are unfortunately having to ask themselves these days.

You only need to do a search on the internet for “how to get pregnant” to see how big the problem is. There are nearly 18 million results for this search term alone in Google!

There is a very good chance that your current lifestyle habits are making you infertile. Of course that’s not true in all cases, but up to 80% of the time the lifestyle is the issue.

1. First of all you will need to change your diet. Eating organically, more vegetables, more fruits etc. will start to cleanse your body of toxins. Unquestionably cut out all processed foods. There are even some foods that you would think are good for you but can actually decrease your fertility; for example Peas! So, you have to be extra careful, check out “Fertility Secrets”, this tells you all the foods to avoid.
2. Especially stop drinking, smoking and taking drugs, if any of these apply to you. The idea is to only introduce healthy things into your body from now on.
3. Exercising is great for your health and your mental state. Not only that, it has been established that being overweight or indeed underweight has a negative impact on your fertility.
4. Reduce stress in your life. It’s not easy but this also affects your fertility levels. See where you can help yourself in this regard.
5. For the complete all round technique use Yoga. It will help you reduce your stress levels and teach you to relax. Added to that it will help stimulate blood circulation to the organs necessary for getting pregnant. Check out this great book called “Yoga for conception” which is downloadable instantly.

Another thing is that women these days are trying to become pregnant later in life. It is not unusual for a woman in her mid to late thirties to have her first child nowadays. Even in her forties.

Such women should pay particular attention to all of the above factors. There is no reason that these women cannot get pregnant, naturally.

How to get pregnant is achievable, for almost everyone. If you plan correctly and make the changes that are required to your lifestyle then you can do it.

This is a huge subject and difficult to cover in detail here. If you want to save yourself the time of researching further through the internet then I recommend you get one of the 3 books listed below.

They’re all concise & detailed . In fact these books are so good that they offer you a 60 day, no questions asked, money back guarentee. Just give them a go, if you don’t like them, ask for your money back. They’re downloadable anyway so you don’t have to post anything back.

Pregnancy Miracle

Fertility Secrets

Yoga for Conception

My heart leaps with joy when we stop in front of the little bakery. I’m ready for my second natural childbirth and I drag my 38 week pregnant body out of the car and ask my husband, mum, dad and 2 year old daughter if they would like a cream donut and a hot chocolate.

They look at me in disgust. It is 8 o’clock in the morning but I just have to give in to these weird cravings. I order an extra cream donut for my midwife. You never know how long this labor will be, she might need a snack to pick her up at some stage!

With contractions about 5 minutes apart, I feel calm, in control and hungry. I know exactly how to breathe through my contractions. I rock my pelvis in circles to let the pain pass quickly.

I feel I am dilating faster now. 10 minutes later we arrive at the maternity centre and my midwife speaks the magic words “already 8 centimeters dilation!”

Everything I have learnt through The Pink Kit about natural childbirth I put into practice now and see the amazing results. It turns this labor into a powerful and ecstatic experience. Pregnant ladies, hear me: The Pink Kit rocks!

To make sure that you are prepared as much as you can for the natural childbirth of your baby you need to eat healthy, be fit and well rested. But for the ultimate preparation for natural childbirth you read, watch and listen to The Pink Kit.

This kit teaches you exactly how to get to know your body so that you can take charge in labor to ensure a smooth and successful childbirth, without the need for intervention and drugs.

Imagine giving birth in control, no drugs or gas and experiencing birth as a positive, enriching experience.  This is exactly what the Pink Kit did for me.

I can safely say that without the Natural Childbirth Pink Kit my birthing experiences would never have been so positive.

The Pink Kit teaches you techniques I could not find anywhere else. To this day I recommend the Pink Kit to everyone I know and can not speak highly enough of it.

Every one, every midwife and every maternity unit in the world should have access to this. If more people used the Pink Kit there would be far fewer Caesareans in the world.

The Pink Kit contains a book, a DVD and a CD. The information described in every chapter in the book is then also clearly demonstrated on the DVD. It is the ultimate natural childbirth resource. 

The kit explains exactly what happens to the bony structure, the soft tissues and the muscles in the pelvis area whilst you are in labor. You even learn how to map your own pelvis so you are able to ‘open’ the area for your baby to come through as easily as possible.

How you birth will depend on the shape of your pelvis. The kit shows you exactly how to work out the shape of your pelvis, no one else teaches this! Based on your pelvis’ shape you will know which birth position will work for you.  

It then teaches you how to be in control of pain and tension through your breath and by moving into positions that are right for your body type.

This detailed and concise information gave me and my husband clear direction about what to do during my first labor. I knew which positions were good for me to relieve the pain and to allow my baby as much space as possible to come down into my pelvis, ready to be pushed out.

This really sped up my labor and by the time we arrived at the maternity centre I was 8 cm dilated. Our first baby girl was born after an hour and a half. I considered my first birth a successful and smooth natural birth, although very overwhelming.

My second labor was very different. Because I knew what to expect I prepared myself much more. I practiced The Pink Kit again, but now even more thoroughly. I now also practiced the exercises on the CD. The CD contains information on how to massage the perineum (the area between the anus and the vulva) and internal areas. This will prevent tearing of the skin tissue so you don’t have to experience extra pain and discomfort during and after labor.

Listening to the CD gave me even more insight on birthing my baby and I prepared the perineum area much more than with my first labor.

When labor came second time around, I was in complete control from start to finish. I knew how to breathe and move through the pain and even experienced a kind of ecstasy throughout labor by being so in control. Even the strong contractions towards the end I could handle well.

After 4 pushes my second baby girl was born. I felt so strong and powerful throughout this labor and was very proud afterwards that I was able to give my daughter such a controlled and calm welcome to the world.   

I am very grateful to my midwife for recommending The Pink Kit to me.  I cannot thank her enough for it! So, for anyone who would like to learn about how to be more in control during a natural childbirth, get The Pink Kit and take your time to get through the whole kit. I would say start the kit around 30 weeks into your pregnancy.

The Pink kit is also fantastic for midwives and birth partners. I recommend that the birth partner practice the book and DVD together with the pregnant woman. With The Pink Kit you will now be able to recognize what is happening inside you whilst you are in labor, which stage of labor you are in and act on it so you can make your birth an amazing, powerful experience. The Pink Kit makes Natural Childbirth a reality.

If you are interested in The Pink Kit click on the banner below.

While  my husband cools my head with cloths drenched in ice water, I hold on to the railings of the birth pool and let the water take my weight. The pain in my back starts to ease off now that  I am in the bath and my muscles begin to relax. For a split second I picture myself in a day spa until the next contraction announces itself.

I always wanted a waterbirth, I love being in the water and the thought of giving birth in the water always appealed to me.

Water is a natural form of pain relief. The water takes the pressure off your bones and tissues so that you can relax your muscles, which helps ease the pain.

It is easy to move around in the water whilst in labor too. You are able to rock your pelvis or turn on your back or front. Just move slowly through the water, it is almost effortless. In this way you can preserve your energy for the moments you need it the most, like when having to deal with contractions. The more you can relax your muscles the easier it is for your baby to move through the birth canal. 

The process of moving from the womb into the world is less stressful  for the baby with a waterbirth. He spends 9 months in water(amniotic fluid) and when born slides into the water of the birthing pool. Then the baby “swims” up to the surface and will rest on his mums chest, his head out of the water for the first time. It is there where the baby takes his first breath.

Make sure the room is warm, the lights are low and there is a relaxing ambience with soft music, candles and aroma therapy.  A calm as possible start to life in this noisy and bright world gives the baby less distress. Research shows that babies who are born in the water are calmer and sleep better than babies not born in water. And that will also create happier parents!

So, your wife/partner has broken the wonderful news and you are expecting a baby. Do you have any idea what is going to happen in the next nine months? It is a time of big changes and challenges, especially for the mother to be. You have just started this journey together and you need to be prepared for what is up ahead. It is a wonderful time of learning and discovery. The wonder of human nature and creating a new life will all be revealed to you.

Pregnancy itself is divided up into three distinct periods, called trimesters. Basically the first three months, the second and then the last three months. The first trimester already started on the first day of your wife/partners last menstrual period. This is a bit strange as the due date of your baby is also calculated from this, regardless of when you think you actually conceived. Never mind, it seems to work and we don’t need to get into that too much. The main thing is to know what is happening in each of those periods and what you can do to help.

1st Trimester

It is truly amazing what occurs to the embryo in this stage. All major body organs and systems are formed during this time. That means arms, hands, heart, lungs, brain, spinal cord, ears, eyelids etc. It’s pretty busy in there. The heart starts to beat by day 25. By the end of the first trimester your baby has gone from the size of a pinhead to about 10cm long and weighs about 30g. Between the 10 and 12 week mark you will be able to hear the babies heartbeat using a ‘doptone’ instrument. When you hear this for the first time as a father, your life will change. You suddenly realize there is a real being in there and it is your child!

The mother to be is the carrier and experiences much more than you do of course. The first trimester is normally the period of morning sickness for her. Her body is also creating hormones in order to grow this baby and she suddenly has more blood in her body.

The mothers that do experience morning sickness all experience it in different ways. Some will have it all day and not just in the morning. Others in the night. Some will actually be sick whilst others will just feel bouts of nausea. All you can really do is give your support and help out with chores as much as you can. My wife experienced it mostly overnight and I was awoken on more than one occasion to the sound of her munching into crackers in the middle of the night.

2nd Trimester

The baby is now what is technically known as a fetus and is in a phase of rapid growth. He actually starts to move and turn and generally become very active. It’s at around 18 weeks that the mother begins to feel these first movements, and it’s a momentous occasion! He now sleeps and wakes at regular intervals too and can hear your voice. Even the fingernails have grown by this stage. By the end of this trimester the fetus is 28cm – 36cm long and weighs anything between 450g – 700g.

For the mother hopefully the morning sickness starts to disappear and she becomes more energetic. She will start to feel the baby move and her body starts to change shape. She may need more sleep overnight and also naps during the day. All in all you should have a much happier mother now as the morning sickness would have been very tedious for her. She will start to get aches and pains in her body simply from the fact that the baby is growing and getting heavier.

I found that during this stage my wife felt the best and had an amazing amount of energy. Plus, she had that famous ‘glow’ that everyone talks about. She was radiating motherhood!

3rd Trimester

Baby continues its growth in this stage. He begins to open and close his eyes, suck its thumb and even cry. Our first baby experienced lots of hiccups! The baby towards the end of this stage will move into a head down position, ready for birth. He will not have much room in there now and will find it difficult  to move.

Mother will be growing too and that bump will be an amazing site. You will also become more emotionally involved as reality is around the corner. You should be talking regularly to your baby and touching and feeling the bump. This is a great time for bonding as the baby responds to sound and touch now. 

Mother will become pretty uncomfortable during this stage, particularly towards the end. Sleeping may become difficult just because getting comfortable is hard. She cannot turn and lie in every position for obvious reasons. Baby will be getting stronger and he can kick!

The next stage is birth and I will cover that in another article.

By knowing what is happening during these first 9 months of pregnancy you are better prepared. You will recognize the different phases both in your babies development and with what is happening to your wife/partner. Above all remain supportive, read more articles on this site and enjoy the process.

This time is gone before you know it and suddenly you have a baby in your arms that you both made together. Remember most of all that the mother to be will go through many changes not just physical, but emotional too. She has a lot of extra hormones flowing through her and she is creating a new life. Her reactions may not be what you normally expect but she can be forgiven for that. Find ways to be supportive and to understand. Most of all enjoy the process and each other. You still have a lot of time for each other, make the most of it.