Dates and raspberry leaf tea work??

Question

I keep seeing how eating dates and drinking red raspberry leaf tea during the last weeks of pregnancy help to have an easier labor, is this true?

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My 1st labor was 24+ hours. So for my 2nd I ate 5 dates a day for the last two months. I had precipitous labor and he was out in 2 pushes. However, the dates were fattening because I ate them with cream cheese - it was the only way I could get past the sweetness. He was almost 9lbs and I had a lot of tearing. This time I skipped the dates and am doing a cup of tea daily. Good luck!

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I drank the tea daily for almost all of my third trimester, and while my son did come early I still had a really long labor 🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t think it will harm anything but I don’t really know that it actually helped

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I drank it religiously from week 32 with my second & she came out much faster & Labour was much quicker. However I was induced with her but my 1st was early so not sure how affective it is, maybe just coincidence!

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I personally don’t think there’s any real truth to it “helping”
I’ve never drank tea or eaten dates for all 4 of my labors and all of them went well and pretty fast. 
It doesn’t hurt if you want to try, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up that it’s going to be some miracle worker.

Dates and raspberry leaf tea work??

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