As soon as labour starts. It will become more and more useful when the labour sensations have increased and you need to concentrate on getting through each contraction. Put it in your hospital bag.

Acupressure points are located where your fingers join your palm, and across the middle of your palm (where your ring and middle fingers touch when you make a fist). Place the com in your hand with the comb teeth on either set of acupressure points. Slowly close the palm of your hand, making sure that the teeth of the comb are touching the points and squeeze through each contraction.

It helps mitigate pain in three different ways. First, the birth comb teeth are designed to hit acupressure points on your hand when squeezed which releases endorphins. Second, it gives you something to focus on (other than the contractions), and thirdly, it activates the Gate Control theory of pain: the pain from the comb teeth on the hand “gates” the pain of the contractions.