A study to evaluate the effectiveness of nipple stimulation for progress of labour during first stage, among primigravida mothers in a selected hospitals at Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu

The labour process is an exciting and anxious time for the women and her significant to others. Now adays varies non pharmacological methods used to induce the labour.In this Nipple Stimulation is a one of the natural method often recommended by the midwives. The researcher was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of Nipple Stimulation for progress of labour during first stage, among Sixty samples were selected and equally allocated in to control and experimental group by using convenience sampling method.The study findings shows that20(66.67%) of the primigravida mothers had less than 8 hours of duration,10(33.33%) mothers had 8-10 hours duration of first stage of labour and none of the mothers had the >10 hrs of duration of first stage of labour. In the control group none of the mothers had the less than 8 hours of duration, 6 (20%) mothers had 8-10 hours duration of first stage of labour24 (80%) mothers had more than10 hours duration of first stage of labour (table 2 and figure 2). The study findings shows that the intensity of uterine contraction among experimental group, during pre test 8 mothers did not have uterine contractions and 21 mothers had very mild uterine contraction. In the posttest 22 mothers had mild uterine contractions, and 6 mothers had low moderate uterine contractions. The obtained Chi-square value was 52.36 and it shows the value was statistically significant at 0.05 level.So the Research Hypothesis was accepted. The findings of the study concluded that the Nipple Stimulation was effective on the increased the uterine contraction , cervical dilatation and reduced the duration of first stage of labour among primigravida mothers