[JayBee]

That is what they give women having babies to speed up the labor, so they deliver sooner. If it were not for oxytocin, both of my children would have the same birthday. When the second one was coming, my ex cried and begged me to go get the doctor to give her the drug to speed things up. Without the drug, it would have taken many more hours for her to deliver, since once she got to 2 cm, the process of dilation of the vaginal opening seemed to stall and no progress was made for several painful hours. When he put the drug in the IV, she dilated from 2 cm to 10 cm in a matter of minutes. We were pushing the guerney to the delivery room as if we were reckless drivers in a mad rush on the freeway, and she was huffing and puffing, trying to stop the baby from coming out before we could get down the hallway to the delivery room. We were no sooner in the room before my son's head began to crown. It was 10:30 PM. They missed having the same Birthday by an hour and a half!