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University of Queensland researchers have developed a new class of oral painkillers to suppress chronic abdominal pain that is based on the peptide hormone oxytocin that drives childbirth contractions.

Oxytocin is also the key hormone that induces uterine contractions during labour and facilitates milk release during breastfeeding.

The teen was now having contractions.

Downing, 34, was experiencing contractions every 30 seconds Aug. 22 at her home in Calabasas and was planning to go with her midwife to the birthing center when she realized that she was not going to make it.

Aged 19, she was diagnosed with the neurological condition dystonia which leads to joint and muscle contractions and spasms and became a full-time wheelchair user.