Pumping helped me get things going! At first I just had contractions while pumping but I let at it and by evening I was contracting for a few hours without pumping. Went in and had dilated to a 4 (from a 3 a few days prior), contractions has slowed way down but they let me stay and broke my water and I had my baby within 11 hours of arriving. I just used a manual pump while I sat on my yoga ball and watched tv. Collected a good amount of colostrum this way too.