need some ideas for spicy food to induce labour...

[hannah76]

hi ladies,

i've had two days of bloody show and no contractions yet... am about to go for a walk, but i need some ideas of spicy food i can eat for dinner tonight!

mexican food isn't really appealing to me now, and dh doesn't like african food...

some ideas i have so far are:
- indian food
- roti

...and that's all i can think of!! any other ideas??

 

[LauraBee]

Everyone suggests curries as an old wives tale, but it doesn't usually work and I don't think spicy foods are really recommended due to the whole diarrhoea as a symptom of labour thing... I know that I'm not gonna want a burnt bum hole in addition to the pain of labour

 

[hannah76]

yeah, hmm... i'm not goign to eat it spicy enough to burn my bum hole!!

 

[LauraBee]

Hahah, then go for it. I already have problems because of my iron tablets, I wouldn't want to add to it

 

[Kent Mummy]

I was tempted to get a spicy curry but I don't normally eat them - also I get heartburn still and I'm not sure if I feel like suffering the heart burn for something that may/may not work!

Has anyone tried it and it has worked?

 

[Jenna700]

my midwife said to eat things that encourage diarrohea...(but obv drink water to keep u from being dehydrated)......so (sorry for tmi) spicy curry pot noodles usually do the trick for me......& kizzyboo (on here) said prunes or prune juice also has that effect xxx

 

[hannah76]

hmmm... diarhea inducing foods... for me that would be a cup of tea, but it also gives me horrible stomach cramps!! so what else....? i'm allergic to prunes, so maybe another half-caf coffee?

 

[miss h]

I love Jalepeno peppers. You can have them in loadsa things (lovely mixed in to pasta with tomato and basil sauce and cheese) and if I eat enough they certainly make me a little "free-flowing" lol. Plus - they are packed full of vitamin C.

 

[OrangeJuice]

recipe my OH cooks all the time

Serve it with rice, and put the rice on, when uve added the corned beef

1 tin of plum tomatoes
1 onion
2tbsp curry powder
1/2 green pepper
1 or 2 scotch bonnets depending on how hot u want it
pinch of salt
1 chicken stock cube
3tbsp water

***mix it all up in a blender until its all blended up then bring to the boil on hob (with a splash of veg oil in***

then add 1 tin of cut up corned beef to the pot and mix up like a sauce then cook for 20 mins or however long ur rice takes


It is honestly the yummiest thing Ive ever eaten...xx

 

[Cattie]

Chinese! Noodles and stir fried veg with garlic, ginger, five spice and a big spoon full of chilli. You could stick some sweet chilli sauce in there too...yum!

 

[summer rain]

Curry works for me and I can say that hand on heart. With my second I was two weeks over and no sign of anything happening; even a sweep failed but about 36 hours before I was due to be induced I ate a big curry meal; not a hot one but one with a lot of aromatic spices; turmeric, cloves etc, that night I woke up with what I thought was indigestion but it turned out to be precipitous labour; 3 hours later I had my son. With my youngest I didn't want to go over at all as I dearly wanted a home birth and in that area they were not keen on attending a home birth being anything more than 5 days over; so the day before my due date I did the same. If I remember rightly I had chicken makhani/butter chicken, lamb rogan josh and a couple of mild vegetable curries; with peshwari naan. I felt my son physically move down as I was eating, before that he was very high, not engaged in any way whatsoever, I went upstairs to show my husband and he nearly fell over! The next morning I had a bloody show but nothing major; then I went into full blown labour out of nothing at about 6.15pm; my son was born just after 8pm. So yep works for me and will definitely be trying it again. I don't believe its the chillis; its the rich and aromatic spices. I didn't have painful diarrhoea but it certainly 'gently' cleaned me out beforehand.

 

[LauraBee]

Hmm. I might give it a go after that success story!

 

[hannah76]

ok, so i've prepared a spicy taco seasoning i often make and added some extra kick to it i know i said i didn't want mexican food, but i didn't know what else to make and there's freezing rain outside so i can't go out to get takeout... will check in later to tell you if it worked!!