Knitting Labor

Knitting midwives for drugless childbirth? is an article published in Midwifery Today with International Midwife in 2004. I don't have access to this article, but since I plan on having children someday I REALLY wish I could access this. Could knitting get your mind off the pain of child birth? I would be more afraid that you would want to stab someone with your knitting needles during a contraction (maybe this is how some of the knitting injuries I've read about occur...)