If you induced your own labor, what did you do?

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38 weeks and I am so over this I have been taking many things such as dates red raspberry leaf tea and evening primrose oil hopefully on my next appointment I find out if I am dilating due to be induced December 10 but would really like to get baby out on my own any advice or tips would be very much appreciated!

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You’re not full term until 39wks. These last couple weeks are crucial for lung and brain development. Just wait until baby is ready and your body is ready. Nothing you do at home will work otherwise if neither are ready.

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If you want labor to come on its own, you are free to decline the induction if it's not for medical reasons. To answer your question, nothing you can do will put you into labor until your body and baby are both ready.

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The last month of my pregnancy I drank large cups of pink stork prep tea. The night before my water broke I had sex and cleaned my house like a mad lady.

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I’m pretty sure I may have brought on my first labour, I was two weeks away from my due date and we’d just gotten our first Flat so on the day of moving in, we were doing lots of shopping for the place and moving our stuff. I was knackered by the end of the day, finally led down in bed ready for sleep but instead started getting pains which ended up being contractions that lasted a few days before I had my son. I do wonder if I hadn’t possibly brought the labour on if I’d have had a faster birth. I was so so knackered after that day and then barely slept because of the pains and it got to the point of me uncontrollably falling asleep between contractions, it was awful! I would not recommend it, you’ll definitely want to make sure you are fully rested for labour 😅 my second baby was late but the labour was so much better and faster :)

If you induced your own labor, what did you do?

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