When to start prepping my body for labour?

Question

This will be my second time giving birth my daughter I had at a young age and my labour was 20hrs 😭 I had an episiotomy with her. 
What can I take or do to prep my body better for labour this time? I’m 29 weeks when should I start? 
Iv herd things about raspberry leaf tea? Evening Primerose? 
Any suggestions welcome! ❤️👌🏻

Answer

I highly recommend reading Ina Mays Guide to Childbirth and checking out Spinning Babies exercises.

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Red raspberry leaf tea isn’t recommended till after 34 weeks by most ob’s . I’ve heard both the tea and primrose oil work really well.

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Honestly best way to prep is to keep active. Go for walks if and when you can or try to do some light workouts or yoga. Also when it comes time to make a birth plan, see if you can labor in a tub. It was a life saver for my first 2 pregnancies and I had no tearing. It was super relaxing which is what you want when you are laboring to keep progressing. My first was 6 hours from start to finish and my second was 3 hours from start to finish. I’m a little worried about making it to the hospital this time around lol (I live about an hour away).

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20+ hours is pretty normal in my opinion. My labor with my first was 24 hours and I pushed for 2 of those hours. It really sucked. I took EPO as well and it didn’t help much. I didn’t tear during labor thankfully but I owe that to my wonderful nurse that gave me a perineal massage during labor so I don’t really want to say it was the EPO. I have never taken anything else to prep for labor. I feel like a lot of those remedies don’t really work but I guess it can’t hurt to try. I started at 36 weeks.

When to start prepping my body for labour?

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