Midwives brew!!!!!!! 39+2

Trying tonight:) I’ve been watching so many videos on YouTube and just went out and bought all the stuff! Hoping it works💃🏻

Appointment yesterday 4/25 (39weeks2days) I was only 1cm dilated 50% effaced.

Look up this video on YouTube it was really informative to me about castor oil.

Natural Labor Induction Series: Evidence on Castor Oil

(The poster is Evidence Based Birth)-this account has a lot of information on studies on things that are said to induce/provide a smoother labor.

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4/26

5:30 Finished the drink. (Most things I’ve read said to finish within 20-30 minutes.)

By the end of the drink I was really nauseous because I didn’t like the taste of it. Although I did watch a lot of YouTube videos and other moms said it wasn’t that bad(they are crazy)

6:15 First time I felt Braxton Hicks-I’m pretty sure they were just Braxton hicks? My whole belly was tightening(it’s never done that) but no pain.

7:30-9:00 I believe I was feeling very little contractions-I’d rate the pain 2/10. They were pretty constant but not anything that made me feel like I had to time. It was still exciting because up until now I haven’t felt much of anything other than baby moving!!

8:00 I went on a 20 minute walk around my neighborhood because I was afraid of laying down and cancelling out everything lol.

11:20 Lost a HUGE piece of mucus plug...I’ve been losing a lot of it the past couple weeks but just now it had some streaks of blood in it.

11:30 Not feeling much of anything anymore I’m really glad it didn’t give me the runs. I was so worried it was gonna make me poop my brains out but I didn’t go at all! Yay.

Going to bed praying my body decides to do this thing soon. ——I was reading that you can have maximum 2 table spoons of castor oil a day and that’s what the recipe calls for soooo I will be doing it again tomorrow night!:)

4/27

Woke up & nothing was going on just normal baby movements all night...ugh 🙄

4:00 Made another one, just finished it- hoping to get some contractions again...fingers crossed! This time I ate a Hawaiian roll in between sips and it made it much easier to tolerate and I am not nauseous this time.

5:00 Currently not feeling anything...I had such high hopes. Especially after watching so many success stories 😭😭😭 hoping something ANYTHING starts happening...even just Braxton Hicks lol

6:00 Feeling immense pressure in vagina. I had a little of this yesterday during the little contractions but this is happening anytime I’m standing. Don’t really know what this could be🤷🏻‍♀️ guessing just baby’s head...

6:45 Just gassy😩 still no signs of anything ugh ugh ugh

7:30-8:15 Walked around target for a little-came home and had to pee really bad and lost another huge piece of my plug and it had a little more blood in it than yesterday! (Haven’t really had any discharge since yesterday’s big piece) I’m not sure what to think about this really because I wasn’t feeling any BH or contractions.

10:30 Told my bf I wanted to go to L&D; because I wasn’t feeling the baby as much. Got there and they hooked us up to the monitors and baby was doing great and I was actually having contractions one right after another. She said it looks like I’m in early labor but I could be here for a few days...😭 she recommended that I keep doing things to help induce.

—She checked me and I was 2cm dilated 75% effaced so I progressed a little from Wednesday but not much 🤷🏻‍♀️

4/28

1:00AM have been loosing lots of mucus plug still (literally so much mucus omg), now it’s pretty bloody (not too much to worry about) definitely from her checking my cervix!!

—-going to bed now, I plan on looking up a different drink tomorrow I’ve seen some where people take 1tbsp every X amount of hours instead of all at one time so we will see how that goes!!

7:00AM lost another big piece of mucus plug with blood in it. I honestly don’t know how our bodies make so much mucus it’s gross😂

Last night was really rough I was in a decent amount of pain from all the contractions. I ended up getting out of bed to take a hot bath because it was just extremely uncomfortable. (Now I’m terrified for legit labor contractions) When I woke up I felt pretty normal. Just feeling baby move. We’ll see what happens when I get my day going.

10:30 So happy to be feeling baby move sooo much because yesterday he was just a tired bug and wasn’t moving a lot like normal!

10:50 Just took my first drink of the day of 1tbsp of castor oil mixed with orange juice. Was soooo much easier than the midwives brew to take down!!!

I honestly think it’s the castor oil that starts these contractions and I’ve had no negative outcomes so that’s why I just took it for the third day in a row!!

11:50 Taking another 1tbsp!!

I want to mention I didn’t take the drink until after I went to the bathroom that day, as I have normal BM everyday. So far it seems to be the key to not getting the runs!!

2:00 Started having contractions a little more harsh than last nights. I’d say a 4/10

2:30 Took 1/2tbsp with orange juice.

3:00 ANOTHER huge piece of my plug it literally took three wipes to get it all off/out!!!! It was bright pink.

5:30 Still having a lot of bloody discharge. Intense contractions-timing them but not close enough to go in. (IM DYING)

7:00 Had some really watery BM 😭😭

8:50!!!!!! MY WATER BROKE PEOPLE OMG OMG OMG