Pineapple?

Sarelnad

Just curious if pineapple can really soften cervix or induce labor.  Who has tried this?  Any success? 

Sami91

I'm glad you posted this as I have been wondering the same thing! I *Hate* pineapple with a passion, but if it will speed things along, I am down to try it

winminpin08

I think it's pineapple core or something that is supposed to help with that, not straight pineapple. I craved pineapple at the end of my pregnancy with my first DD and ate about a whole pineapple a day for the last couple weeks and I had her on her due date.  So I have no idea if it helped anything along or not.

WearingRed

I have had a pineapple craving this whole pregnancy. I have eat whole pineapples (cores included) by myself in a few hours and am still pregnant. I had heard this and so I asked my MW what she thought and if it was safe to keep doing. She told me she had never seen it work and I could keep eating as much as I wanted but if I did start getting contractions to easy up. So I say while there is science behind this idea (there is some chemical compound in it thought to help start labor) The amount of pineapples you would have to eat in order for it to help would  most likely make you sick.

emaddock

I tried it with DD and it didn't work...I delivered her at 42 weeks :

jessicaskyy

Another owt, IMO.

Rachelilly23

I ate it the whole last week before my water broke at 39w3d. But I also was walking a lot, having sex, eating labor cookies (so gross), and bouncing on an exercise ball. I also ate eggplant parmesean the night my water broke. Who knows if any of those things actually worked... I was desperate so I milked the OWTs.

lady dixneuf

I too have been craving and eating it the entire pregnancy...and am here to tell you I am still pregnant!

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alyson686

I ate a big bowl of it every day the last two weeks I was pregnant with DS, and IMO all it did was leave me with a sore tongue and mouth from all the acid...

Cynthia1207

I read somewhere that in order for it to actually work, you'd need to eat SEVEN pineapples at once to get enough chemicals that would trigger labor.  That will not be happening.  I'm eating it because I love pineapple.  If it does end up triggering my labor, I really wouldn't mind but I don't believe in it.

jtorgersen

I never heard of it working to get labor going...just heard of eating pineapple core for help with implantation...been eating pineapple this entire pregnancy and as of last week not dilated one bit...

lsson12

It would be great if it worked. I LOVE pineapples. Pineapple on pizza, pineapple smoothies, pineapple juice, pineapple ice cream... YUMMM Just typing pineapple makes me want some.