i think this is funny...several years ago, doc walks in on another nurse and myself doing our darndest to help a patient push. she had been pushing on her side, her back, in ever conceivable ( no pun intended, by the way) position, without much progress. other nurse and i both recall that during our respective labors, before we were delivery nurses, our nurses had done sves after coating their gloves with castile soap to make things more slippery, as it were..darned if that and mcroberts didn't do the trick. doc starts laughing at us. "can't possibly be true," he snickers.. we don't care. we just want to catch a good baby...we do....same doc continues to laugh at several more deliveries, and teases us all the time...then, during one horrific pushing episode, he actually asked for castille soap to be put on his glove. never has he admitted to learning anything from us, but we know he did....now a days we have astroglide, but i haven't found that it works any better. give me castille soap any time....i mean, what is there to lose? baby gets his or her first shampoo......:)..