Red Raspberry Leaf Tea!?

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Pros? Cons? Did it work? What did you feel and how soon? Talked about it with my midwife today...curious for others experiences...

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1 cup/ day 1st trimester
2 cups/day 2nd trimester 
3 cups/day 3rd trimester. By third trimester I would have major Braxton Hicks with my nighttime one. I’ve had 2 HBAC’s. One “overdue” and one a week “early”. Don’t love the taste but I definitely put it in my pregnancy routine. Having #4 in the fall.

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I’ve heard women have great results and faster labors, but because every labor is different even for the same woman I don’t know how reliable the anecdotal evidence is. I had been drinking several cups a day throughout my third trimester, but still had a rough, 16 hr labor. My labor started very strong with contractions lasting 1.5 minutes, about 5-6 minutes apart. My whole labor went that way. By the end I had to push him out without any contractions because my uterus literally stopped contracting from exhaustion. My baby was posterior and asynclitic, so I suppose it’s possible that if he’d been positioned better I would have had a faster, easier labor 🤷🏼‍♀️ no way to know. My philosophy is that it can’t hurt to try.

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In the last few weeks of pregnancy I ate a lot of dates and drank 2 cups of raspberry leaf tea a day.
I personally think it helped me a lot. I had a planned home birth and the midwives were surprised at how quickly I had progressed.
I did the love your labour program for my labor prep and she has a whole section on what to take and when to get the baby out ☺️

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I drank gallons of it the last 6 weeks of my pregnancy with my first.  I think all it did was make me pee a lot.  I was induced at 38w due to preeclampsia and it was a 35 hour labor.

Red Raspberry Leaf Tea!?

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