When to start...

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Hi former mamas, (first timer here). When is an appropriate time to start drinking raspberry leaf tea and start perineal massage? Any other natural routines I should be starting in my third trimester? (Planning on a home birth).

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Sorry - what are the benefits of raspberry leaf tea? Interested for myself haha

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35-36 weeks is appropriate I think.

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Raspberry leaf tea can be started in the second trimester and the longer you take it the more benefit it will have. Mind you if you have any side effects you should stop. It helps to tone your uterus which MAY help with labor and recovery but not promises. EPO shouldn’t be started before 35w, it MAY help ripen your cervix and decrease the chance of tearing but no promises either. For that you just take it orally until 38w then switch to vaginally.

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I started around 15 weeks and am now almost 30. I’ll up t to two cups a day around 35 weeks

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I read 32 weeks.

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