encouraging labor???

[babyplease01]

Anyone tried it?? Trying it?? What works, what doesn't?? Tell me your experiences!! I gotta get this kid outta me!!!

 

[Eleanor ace]

I tried a few things with my 1st one I went overdue as I wanted to avoid induction. Lots of walking, sex, spicy food, clary sage oil. Nothing worked.
With my 2nd I didn't do much (I only went a week over with her so didn't get to that desperate stage!) but I did use EPO and clary sage oil. The clary sage oil brought contractions on each time I used it. I was more favourable that time though (I was 3cm dilated for a few weeks whereas with my DS I was unfavourable for labour).

 

[Rhio92]

With my second labour, I resigned myself to having to be induced. Then of course, I went into labour naturally. My child

 

[banana07]

With my first, I tried everything spicy food, Rasberry leaf everything except DTD as DH was working away at the time etc.... After 10 days I gave up as I was being induced the next day. Now it could well be coincidence since I was 10days over but I walked back from town and that evening my waters broke.

Seond time, I just DTD and went into labour that night the night I was due.

At that stage everthign can be coincidence though!!

 

[greats]

I bounced and did hip circles on a yoga/birthing ball for hours every night while watching tv, lots and lots of walking (stairs help, too!), sex, and spicy food.

 

[babyplease01]

I bounced and did hip circles on a yoga/birthing ball for hours every night while watching tv, lots and lots of walking (stairs help, too!), sex, and spicy food.

You think it helped?? Every night for how long?? I'm trying sex and nipple stimulation with my pump and I can't tell that I'm really getting any contractions!! We did knock out my plug the other night though. oops!!

 

[auntsas]

I never found anything that worked...I was 10 days overdue and 20 hrs of pitocin lol

 

[emyandpotato]

My friend swears by clary sage oil, said she had a bath in it in early labour and went from 1-8cm in a couple of hours.

I don't know if anything helped induce my labour, but I drank raspberry leaf tea from 32 weeks, and a hot bath and sex may or may not have helped! Once in labour I think walking helped speed things up.

 

[greats]

I bounced and did hip circles on a yoga/birthing ball for hours every night while watching tv, lots and lots of walking (stairs help, too!), sex, and spicy food.

You think it helped?? Every night for how long?? I'm trying sex and nipple stimulation with my pump and I can't tell that I'm really getting any contractions!! We did knock out my plug the other night though. oops!!

I got to 4cm dilated at 37+6 by doing bouncing/hip circles on my yoga ball for about 2 hours every night, and then also walking 1 mile a day, and going up and down the stairs instead of taking the elevator in my old building. Sex was like 3x a week and spicy food was a few nights a week as well. But I truly believe the yoga ball and walking did the trick as I went into labor and had my daughter at 38+1.

 

[greats]

Also adding that every time I spent more than an hour on the yoga ball, I would have contractions for a couple hours after. Not painful, but ridiculously strong Braxton hicks.