Naturally Induced labor! What worked for me @ 38weeks 5 days

I was contracting for about 14 hours, eight minutes apart. This did not change and I was starting to feel desperate for a way out! I boiled cinnamon sticks in water and drank two cups of that tea without sugar. At the same time I drank two cups of chamomile tea (2 bags per cup.) I also did this workout https://youtu.be/8CQOlYCq2UQ & surely enough the contractions went from 8 minutes apart to 5 minutes apart! We dropped off our 1 yo son with his grandmother and came to the hospital. Whenever I contracted the baby’s head was being pushed down, slowing his heartbeat. So please do be careful and take at your own risks. Because of this I wasn’t going to be leaving hospital. either way I was dilated at 5cm. The nurse said she’s come back to check on me within the hour but I could not wait the full hour and called for her half an hour passed and I dilated to 7cm! I was so happy and I’m so much pain. 😅 I’m so glad I did not need to be medically induced (like with my first.) & I felt like I needed to push while contracting. I asked to start pushing at 9 cm and my little baby boy was born. I am so proud of myself. The whole active labor didn’t last more than 6 hours.

P.s. No epidural & no tears 😉🙌🏼