Eating dates? What are they good for?

Question

I read on a mom page that this lady was eating dates daily while pregnant and I guess she went into labor before her due date and had an easy natural labor & delivery. 
Anyone have any success stories? Or maybe tips on the dates? I’ve never heard of this until now. 36+5 with baby #2

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Studies have shown that eating 6 dates a day in your last month helps make you more sensitive to the oxytocin hormone. This means more spontaneous births, less medical interventions, highly decreased chance of hemorrhaging, less pp bleeding. I remember reading up on one study where eating them during labor and immediately was equivalent to pitocin. It's also very high in good nutrients, especially vitamin K which transfers to baby's in utero. 
My favorite way to "eat" them is putting them in smoothies (banana, peanut butter date smoothies are delicious 😋) and in granola bars. There are many other ways to eat them besides plain, I heard bacon wrapped dates were fantastic but I'm not a "bacon wrapped" type of person unless it's on shrimp.

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U have to eat like ten dates a day for several months, the idea is that it softens ur cervix and makes it more prepared for labor. U would need to eat them daily for basically the entire last trimester.

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Wow I’ve never even heard of this definitely going to try this with my second also the smoothies the lady above has sound sound delicious thanks for sharing this

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6 dates a day during the last trimester. I did it, but usually only ate 3 or so because I wasnt crazy about them. I went 5 days overdue but labor was spontaneous and progressed quickly for a ftm.

Eating dates? What are they good for?

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