Pineapples anyone!!!

Re: Pineapples anyone!!!

• emaddock member

  July 2012

  I went to 42 weeks with DD and ate pineapple every day in those last 2 weeks.  It did not work but was yummy!!

  

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• BillyMollyEmmy member

  July 2012

  I'm 32 weeks and have craved pineapple for months. Sometimes I eat an entire pineapple in one sitting and it does absolutely nothing to me. I think you'd have to eat a truckload of pineapple to induce anything. Just my opinion though... it's tasty if nothing else
  

  Me: 27 DH: 28

  Diagnosis: PCOS, irregular cycles, old lady eggs. DH is fine.

  Started TTC in January 2010. BFP December 25, 2011 between IF appts. 

  DD born August 31, 2012

  Began TTC again in Jan. 2013. 

  Four rounds of Clomid - BFN

  Fifth round of Clomid September/Oct - cancelled

  HSG scheduled for Oct. 30 - Tubes all clear

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• sinisforgiven member

  July 2012

  Brisk walking and sex are the only ways that I've heard can actually help jump start impending labor, and I've heard that the rest are all old wives tales...
  

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• MrsEllis10 member

  July 2012

  At 39 1/2 weeks I ate a whole pineapple. I took long walks, bounced on a birthing ball, sex, ate spicy food. I tried everything. Had to be induced at 10 days. 

  When someone is 40 weeks pregnant and goes into labor after doing something to help "induce" it's not what you did, it was just time to have that baby!

  Baby comes when baby is ready!!

   

  
  

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• Sawyerplus1 member

  July 2012

  It does NOT induce labor. Pineapples have some prostaglandin in them (mainly in the core) and prostaglandin is known to have some effect on the cervix (softening, ripening, etc). Eating lots of pineapple throughout pregnancy, just as having regular sex throughout pregnancy (as prostaglandin is also found in semen), can aid in in readying the cervix once you are full term. Eating a whole pineapple once you hit your EDD will not induce labor. A lot less women would go over their EDDs if it were that easy. 

  Not much will induce labor, aside from medical inductions of course, but there are some things you can do throughout pregnancy, and especially in the 3rd tri, to help your body/uterus/cervix get ready.

  

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• abbyful member

  July 2012

  Nicole1026:

  I'm 40 weeks and 1 day!!!  A lot of ppl say that it"s not unusual to go a few days over when your a FTM.

  I learned in my Bradley classes that, according to Harvard, human gestational time is actually 41w1d, not 40w0d. 

  
  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

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• nerdbaby member

  July 2012

  I think when anyone says, "Eat ____! I did and went into labor that night!" it is entirely coincidental. The chemicals that kick off the big show don't release until they release, and if it just so happens to be a few hours after you inhaled your body weight in pineapple and eggplant parm sandwiches, it's really just a coincidence.

  That said, I'll be guilting my husband into mercy sex every day until this baby arrives, but that's more for the cervical benefits than any belief that it will actually kick-start labor. 

  

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• Stephorse member

  July 2012

  My OB said it's just a myth. It's believed that hot food and pineapple can do that, but my OB said it was ok to eat it because she believed these weren't true.
  

  
  
  
  

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• camillaandcarson member

  July 2012

  I don't believe this works.  

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