[Olgilvy]

As you reach the end of your pregnancy, you may begin looking for natural ways to induce labor. Please keep in mind that you should not use any of these methods until you are past your due date. No method is guaranteed to work. Even drugs like pitocin do not always work at inducing labor. If your baby and body is not ready, labor will not begin.

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[Olgilvy]

I have to add my 2 cents! Prior to this baby, I had four babies with medical induction (the doctors said I had too much amniotic fluid to carry safely beyond my due date). This time around, with baby #5, I had seen a doctor at a different medical practice, and she wanted to "wait it out". Imagine, I didn't! I was determined to have this baby born by his due date! Here’s what I did (and it worked!). Sunday morning, I made a fruit smoothie with 2 lbs fresh diced pineapple, 2 lbs fresh diced mango, and about a dozen those huge Costco strawberries (actually, all three fruits came from Costco). I also added plain yogurt and honey for flavor. I drank that all day long, there was about half a gallon of this stuff. Two days later, I woke up to a bloody show. I called the hospital, and they told me to go in. After being watched for three hours and not dilating more than 1 cm, they sent me home. I was sooo frustrated! oh, I also lost my mucous plug while I was at the hospital. They told me it could still take days - up to two weeks! NO, I thought, this baby is coming today! So, I went and had a lunch with my hubby and a girlfriend - eggplant parmesan at a local Olive Garden. All the while the contractions were coming on every 10 minutes, and were about 2-3 on a 10-gradient pain scale - not enough to make me progress in laboring. Then, hubby and I came home and went for a nice, long (2 hours long, to be exact!) walk. When we came back, I took an hour-long shower. Then, we did the "naughty"... I made sure to get all the semen into me. By 6 pm, the contractions were coming on every 6 minutes and were becoming progressively more painful. I had hubby drop me off at the hospital, where a girlfriend had met me (I checked in and told the nurses I was NOT going home this time until the baby was born. They all joked about it, but little did they know I was right). Hubby went to pick up the kids and his mother (they were there since they got out of school that day), and bring them back to our house. We thought there was a plenty of time. When I got into my hospital room, I was dilated whooping 4 centimeters. The nurse started putting the IV in my arm, by then the pain was unbearable, I was screaming for meds! 45 minutes, 4 pokes in my arms (they kept hitting the valves); the 2 nurses got IV into me. They went to check if I could still have meds - nope, I was at 8.5 cm. 30 minutes later, my water broke, and the baby boy decided it was time. My girlfriend called my hubby, who just got into the hospital garage (thank GOD!), and he barely made it for the arrival of our baby boy! The baby was squeaky clean at birth, none of the gross-looking white stuff on him! So, pineapple and mango do induce labor, and eggplant parmesan, walking and sex help it along. LOL

[Latreciav]

the raspberry tea worked for me with my second child but i made sure it was the real stuff contractions will start to come harder if u walk while drinking the tea.

[Alaska-Su]

The eggplant parmesan I've read is not actually what induces labor. A lot of people are saying it's the eggplant. I've read it's actually the basil and oregano in the dish. Apparently staying away from large quantities of the two herbs and the essential oils for aromatherapy is something pregnant women need to do because they can induce labor.

[solis81]

castor oil totally worked for me I was skeptical but I wanted to give birth so badly I bought a bottle on the 8th went into labor that night and gave birth on the 10th I thought it was false labor because the contractions stopped but when the doctor checked me I was nine centimeters he broke my water than the pain came but I was already fully dialated so it didnt last long it was the easiest delivery of my life

[noonny]

On the maturity of pregnant women who are pregnant and to become more and more uncomfortable. Some herb, foods such as evening primrose oil, pineapple, caster oil,eating spicy foods can stimulate contractions. another methods long walking, light exercise, nipple stimulate, massage and bouncing on yoga ball can often induce labor. Yoga ball is a gentle way to induce labor.

[noonny]

On the maturity of pregnant women who are pregnant and to become more and more uncomfortable. Some herb, foods such as evening primrose oil, pineapple, caster oil,eating spicy foods can stimulate contractions. another methods long walking, light exercise, nipple stimulate, massage and bouncing on yoga ball can often induce labor. Yoga ball is a gentle way to induce labor