Raspberry leaf tea who took it in previous pregnancies?

[Pearls18]

Hmm, might be! I was a bit disappointed as I planned to have rlt just to help with twin nr 2 as the contractions can be too weak to last for the second one. But I'm not sure I dare to have some after the advice against it.

It's always worth looking around for different research, MWs often give out misinformation on RLT so there might be some conflicting evidence. Do you get offered a c section with twins out of interest?

 

[Heramys]

Yes I will be offered c-sec if twin one hasn't got head down at one of the future scans (or something else obvious wrong). But not otherwise, unless I'm scared to death of vaginal birth.
I'm having a scan and birth info/discussing meeting in four weeks with OB so I'll see what they say then.
I'm going to look around some more regarding the rlt, but all I've found is advice against it :/

 

[ThinkPositiv]

Started at 37 weeks, about 4 cups a day. Loved it!!!! Water broke at 38 and a half weeks. Labor went great.

 

[Miniamo]

I started with a cup a day from 32 weeks, gradually increasing to about 3 cups a day. Waters broke at 11pm on due date and had her by 3.30pm the next day. Active labour was recorded as 7 hours and pushed her our in 10 mins! Hard to say if tea helped but felt like I had decent not too protracted labour (and I had an epi later on which slowed things down a bit). After my waters broke though I have to say there was no gradual build up of contractions - they started within the hour every 3-4 mins lasting for a minute - I wonder now whether tea did make them more efficient!

 

[Pearls18]

I started with a cup a day from 32 weeks, gradually increasing to about 3 cups a day. Waters broke at 11pm on due date and had her by 3.30pm the next day. Active labour was recorded as 7 hours and pushed her our in 10 mins! Hard to say if tea helped but felt like I had decent not too protracted labour (and I had an epi later on which slowed things down a bit). After my waters broke though I have to say there was no gradual build up of contractions - they started within the hour every 3-4 mins lasting for a minute - I wonder now whether tea did make them more efficient!

Oh this is true for me too, I didn't really get a build up to labour, I got some twinges in the day to suggest it was going to start but they weren't painful, but from my first proper contraction they were pretty full on and every 5 mins right from the start and then just got closer together until he was born 4 hours later, so yeah although mine was a short labour it was pretty intense, and I guess "efficient"!

 

[Miniamo]

Interesting MarineWAG! I guess I would prefer a quicker and more painful labour than really long and drawn out, albeit less painful...I think! And to be honest, 3 weeks on it really is a bit of a hazy memory - probably a blessing!

 

[Pearls18]

Interesting MarineWAG! I guess I would prefer a quicker and more painful labour than really long and drawn out, albeit less painful...I think! And to be honest, 3 weeks on it really is a bit of a hazy memory - probably a blessing!

Absolutely! Fingers crossed I get the same this time lol.

 

[steph.]

I started with a cup a day from 32 weeks, gradually increasing to about 3 cups a day. Waters broke at 11pm on due date and had her by 3.30pm the next day. Active labour was recorded as 7 hours and pushed her our in 10 mins! Hard to say if tea helped but felt like I had decent not too protracted labour (and I had an epi later on which slowed things down a bit). After my waters broke though I have to say there was no gradual build up of contractions - they started within the hour every 3-4 mins lasting for a minute - I wonder now whether tea did make them more efficient!

Oh this is true for me too, I didn't really get a build up to labour, I got some twinges in the day to suggest it was going to start but they weren't painful, but from my first proper contraction they were pretty full on and every 5 mins right from the start and then just got closer together until he was born 4 hours later, so yeah although mine was a short labour it was pretty intense, and I guess "efficient"!

Me too! I was reading a book one minute and the other I was doubled over in a full on contraction. They kept coming super strong, and she was 3 hours later!

 

[Calibeachbum]

I started drinking the tea in 2nd tri. It was summer so I would just make a pitcher and chill it in the fridge. I was crowning when it came time to push. MW said my uterus was doing the work for me. I only pushed for 10 minutes, I credit this to RRLT.

 

[Mummy Bean]

started at 34 weeks building up slowly (i just took capsules) to having 6 caps a day at full term.

I didnt think it was meant to bring on labour but help whilst in it....i know when i finally went into labour my contraction were pretty constant from the begining and 12 hrs from 1st contraction to holding him was not bad for a 1st timer. - but i dont have any thing to compare it to

 

[willowblossom]

I drank 2-3 cups a day from 36 weeks. Went into labour at 39+5 but pushed for well over an hour so dnt think it had any affect of me x

 

[SusieRose]

I took it from 32 weeks and gradually increased the dosage gave birth at 39+2 . Went into slow labour on the thurs. Woke up sat morn at 1.30 with painful contractions. Born at 5.16am. Midwife said I was in established labour for less than 2hrs!! Worked for me!

 

[The Alchemist]

I didn't take rlt with my first and gave birth 9 days early.

For this pregnancy, I started drinking it around 28 weeks with just one cuppa day. I started drinking 2 cups last week. I will increase to 3 cups after 34/35 weeks.

I think I'd rather choose a shorter and intense labor than a long and less-intense labor. But that's just my personality - "get it over with" I also plan on continuing to drink it after I have my boy too, it's suppose to help shorten pp bleeding and other things. I also read somewhere that it's beneficial to drink it while breastfeeding as well as it enriches the milk because of the vitamin+minerals.

 

[Seity]

I started it at 32 weeks with my first and gave birth at 38 weeks.
I started at 25 weeks with my second and gave birth at 39 weeks.

It doesn't make you go into labor early or earlier, it simply tones your uterus to make the 2nd stage of labor more effective. I had a 3 hour active labor with 6 min pushing stage with my first and a 30 min active labor with a 5 min pushing stage with my second.
I believe that RLT was effective.
I started with 1 cup a day and worked my way up to 4 a day.

 

[Delamere19]

I started bout 36 weeks with my son but I went overdue and got induced at 41+3. I'm not sure I'll bother this time tbh. My sis works in a health food shop and said that you shouldn't have it too early. Around 36 wks plus x

 

[Seity]

^^
That's BS.
It's safe to take, pregnant or not. In fact, it's likely to decrease the chance of miscarriage for some women in 1st trimester because it can make the uterine lining healthier and better for implant.
There are some women who shouldn't take it because of other medical reasons, but your average woman is fine to take it at any time.

 

[Pearls18]

^^
That's BS.
It's safe to take, pregnant or not. In fact, it's likely to decrease the chance of miscarriage for some women in 1st trimester because it can make the uterine lining healthier and better for implant.
There are some women who shouldn't take it because of other medical reasons, but your average woman is fine to take it at any time.

There's no need to put it so rudely and to belittle the poster's sister, in this country medical professionals and those in health care shops do not advise women to take RLT during pregnancy before 32 weeks, it is even written on the tea packaging (of the one I had). I don't know the medical debate I haven't read into, but in this country it isn't BS so the sister was only doing her job with this advice. I personally had a lot of affects from the tea and wouldn't risk drinking it earlier knowing the affect it had on me.

 

[Kat541]

Me! 15 minutes of pushing with the first, and I only started taking it my third trimester. I've been drinking from the start of this pregnancy.

 

[LittleMissK]

I started drinking the tea at 32 weeks, 2-3 a day, then switched to the capsules at 36 weeks taking one with each meal.
I went into labour at exactly 38 weeks, and my second stage of labour lasted less than half an hour.
Not sure if it was just a coincidence or if the raspberry leaf helped?

 

[LittleMissK]

I started drinking the tea at 32 weeks, 2-3 a day, then switched to the capsules at 36 weeks taking one with each meal.
I went into labour at exactly 38 weeks, and my second stage of labour lasted less than half an hour.
Not sure if it was just a coincidence or if the raspberry leaf helped?