Anything to help labor start??

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So we all are getting close to our due date, are you planning on doing something to help labor start once you reach full term? I know some ppl will eat pineapple, dates, castor oil. What are you doing and what week are you planning to start?

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Do not try castor oil! But I’m going to start at 37 weeks, eating pineapple, walking, eating dates, and bouncing on my exercise ball, I tried that last pregnancy and it didn’t help at all lol.

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I plan to drink red raspberry leaf tea.

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Check with your OB with my first I used Evening Primrose Oil pills and red raspberry leaf tea. She came at 39x2

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My friend tried castor oil and it did absolutely nothing for her beside make her throw up. I don’t recommend it. Also I plan on trying to bounce on a ball all the time and making sure I’m getting up and walking, and dancing. Also going to try lots of sex! I want my girl here already that’s for sure

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Nothing. I think it will happen when it happens. However, the night before my son was born I was eating Texas Petes Hotter Hot Sauce with salsa and chips after having a spicy food aversion the whole pregnancy. My water broke at 2:30 am and he was born at 7:30 am. We joke it was the hot sauce, but it was probably just time at 39 weeks.

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I wont be trying anything in specific other than staying active & walking as much as i can. If i need to be induced then thats another thing.

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This our 3rd and last baby. I am so sad about pregnancy ending. I want it to last as long as possible. I will not try to induce. I was induced with my 2nd and although the delivery was smoother than natural labor. I don’t want to be induced this time.

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I just prepare for labor, I don’t try to self induce because it’s fun to me to see when baby will choose to come on their own. But I started Red Raspberry Leaf Tea at 30 weeks to tone my uterus. I will start evening primrose oil around 34/35 weeks. I will take more regular walks and do squats to help encourage baby into position and plan to have plenty of sex with my husband to soften my cervix in the last few weeks. Oh also I need to remember Kegels and perineal massages to help prepare the birth canal.

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I’ve already started drinking red raspberry leaf tea daily. I’ll start more when I’m 37 weeks - walking, eating curries, hand expressing etc. Won’t ever do castor oil. I had to be induced at 39 weeks with my last pregnancy and tried a ton of things then but nothing put me into labour anyway 😂 hoping something will work this time around

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All of those are old wives tales. You’d have to eat a tone of pineapple core to even think of it starting labour and you’d give yourself a bad stomach.
I have a big baby and won’t be allowed to go over (borderline gestational diabetes) so I’ll just wait or be induced.
If I wasn’t I’d just wait for nature to take its course. A lot of the things you hear about do nothing but get your bowels moving (got this info straight from a birthing class two weeks ago)

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