Castor Oil Experience

I’m taking it at 8pm on 12-5-18

I’m going to try to update this post with progress or anything I learn.

Last week I was 2cm dialated 80% effaced.

I have seven days until my due date. There aren’t many current accounts of induction with Castor Oil that I’ve found. My mother almost thirty years ago had luck as well as her mother. So down the lineage we go.

I’m taking 2 tablespoons. I tried it straight, with a teaspoon. It’s similar to a play-dough smell and taste but it’s the thickness that makes it gross. So I finished the rest of the portion in a mug of Starbucks hot chocolate, mixing two packets and some sugar into sweetened vanilla soymilk.

I ate an hour beforehand. In the few studies done women seemed to have a 58% success rate if I recall correctly but all reported nausea. I could see that my mouth is oily and even my chocolate sludge isn’t fully masking that.

(Updated at 7:53)

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8:15pm normal BM (haven’t used the bathroom in like two days so yeehaw)

Lost a tbp of mucus plug

8:24pm bh

contraction- uncomfortable but not painful. Upper back has aches today though!

8:48pm bh

8:53pm bh

8:58pm bh

9:02pm - weird pop by pubic bone? ?

9:07pm -bh

9:10pm- Bh

9:13pm bh?

9:14pm trying to use restroom, another weird pop feeling. Honestly having a hard time. Possibly from not using the bathroom today or yesterday.

I have marked so far all tightening just as BH since I’m not certain what true contractions will be like for me, however they’re more frequent and closer together it would seem.

Updated at 9:18pm.

I continued to have more frequent Braxton-Hicks for the remainder of the night but not even constipation relief.

I do feel though that it’s progressed me further however, as I wasn’t having many Braxton-Hicks and now I have them more frequently.

I feel as though I tried too early and drank it too slow. This was my experience! Thanks for keeping an eye on my experiment! I may try again if I go past due date!

Updated 12/07/18 @ 8:41pm.