Sex close to due date may cause spontaneous labor
 

(stuyvo)


Reuters Health



NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who have sexual intercourse during late pregnancy are more likely than abstinent women to have a spontaneous delivery at 38 to 40 weeks' and less likely to require labor induction, according to results of a study conducted in Malaysia.

It is commonly believed that coitus hastens labor, but very little research has been published to confirm this theory, Dr. Peng Chiong Tan and associates point out in the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Tan, from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, and colleagues designed a study in which 200 healthy, married women with uncomplicated pregnancies completed diaries regarding sexual activity beginning at week 36 of pregnancy. Labor induction was carried out among women who had not delivered after about 41 weeks of pregnancy.

The women's diaries showed that 116 (58 percent) of women had intercourse in late pregnancy an average of four times. Twenty-five women required labor induction because of prolonged pregnancy.

The results showed that 6.9 percent of sexually active women had not delivered by 41 weeks, compared with 29.8 percent of abstinent women.

After factors such as ethnicity, education, occupation, perception of coital safety and husbands' age were taken into account, women who had sexual intercourse were 90 percent more likely to have delivered by 41 weeks and almost 100% had a less likely to require labor induction compared with women not engaging in sexual intercourse.

Tan's team also found that having intercourse more than once per week was inversely associated with prolonged pregnancy and the need for labor induction.

Although the researchers recommend sexual intercourse as a means of avoiding labor induction, they add that "in potentially compromised pregnancies caution has to be applied because the effect of intercourse and orgasm has been described as being similar to an oxytocin contraction stress test."

hmmmmmm
 

I was taught that a long time ago in Nursing School. The prostaglandins in male semen are similar to the ones that occur in naturally in women when labor is occuring.

Nothing new... :rolleyes:

Nurse Wanda

Just stimulate my closet preggo fetish further, why don't you, Lil? :hair:

If it works for you Irezumi, go for it.

Fussy and I keep getting nagged by the Midwife to have lots of sex, but unfortunately, it's hard to feel in the mood when you feel like a beached whale, and even harder for Fussy to feel in the mood when I LOOK like a beached whale too! LOL

Come now! I know it's probably my general daily horniness plus my fetish talking, but I bet you're looking mucho caliente right now. Maybe Fussy just doesn't wanna overpower you with his undying lust?

It's a recent self-discovery kinda thing...I never really analyzed what turns me on so much about pregnant ladies...and I'm sure Freud would have a field day in telling me why, but I do know for sure that the whole swollen, milk-laden breasts and dark nipple thing is a biiiiiig part of it....

I call "bullshit".

I went through the male first pregnancy thing of "fear of doing something which might harm the baby".

It's normal, natural and if all is well in the pregnancy, vanishingly unlikely.

The psychological benefit to the mother outweighs the risks of gentle sex.

I think pregnant girls/women look wonderful, not from a perverted view but from a miracle of life perspective, I neither desire or want them, It is part of the beauty of nature and these ladies look stunning - i repeat I do not want them, because they are already taken, I wish them joy and happiness with their partner/husband and loyalty in love has to be envied.