Tips for late pregnancy

vesselG

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Anyone have any tips that really work for late pregnancy? I'm 40 weeks 2 days with my first. Thing is I haven't had any contractions at all this whole pregnancy. Sometimes I feel like hes never coming out...Lets get this party started already!

greeneyed_bride

I have one friend who has had all four of her children soon after having sex with her husband. For her third and fourth, they actually just picked the day they wanted the baby to come, had sex the night before, and voila! But that definitely doesn't work for everyone. As hard as it can be to wait, your body and the baby just have to be ready, or no amount of "encouragement" will make it come.

I had a massage scheduled a few days before my due date, and I asked the massage therapist to do the pressure points that are supposed to stimulate labor. My water broke the next morning, and I never went into labor naturally. I literally did not have a single contraction until they hooked me up to pitocin eight hours after my water broke, and then after several hours of contractions that were 1-2 minutes apart, I was still only dilated one cm. Long story short, I ended up with an unplanned c-section. The whole massage thing was probably just a coincidence, but it did make me kind of wish that I hadn't tried to "hurry things along" when my body wasn't ready, just in case.

jnnfrrose6

I wasn't overdue, but with DS I had a massage and worked out the night before he was born. I hadn't experienced any contractions until the morning after the massage. May be coincidence, but there are points they can focus on during the massage to help get things moving. Worst case you get a nice massage out if it.

Jwilliams777

I had NO contractions and was 1/2 cm on my due date. 3 days late I started to have the weakest most random contractions. the next morning at 4 am I woke up with them 4 minutes apart and VERY strong. 14 hours later... baby I was walking and stuff... but nothing crazy. So don't worry.. things could change any minute. I will tell you to go on a walk by yourself and take a nice long bath because your about to not have as much time to do that. 

naturaloaklandmama

I am in the same boat. Due date was last Friday. Been walking, eating spicy foods, having sex, and getting acupuncture tomorrow. But what I have heard from my midwives, etc., is that just as @greeneyed_bride said, they come when they are ready. So just hoping for the best as really don't want to have an induction as I am trying to do the natural birth birth thing. Best of luck to all of us!