If you tried to bring on labor ...

Mel&Jason · April 2009

with walking, bouncing on a birthing ball, sex, etc ... do you think it actually worked? I feel so tired to do any of these anymore ... but I want baby here now! lol. TIA

NicoleOSU · April 2009

I don't know if they worked or not for sure, but I did all of them and he came 2 weeks early.

KinleesMommy · April 2009

i had my membranes stripped in the AM, had sex late that night and my water broke about 6 hrs later. I think it worked.

bnljane1988 · April 2009

Nope. Thought it was best to wait for him to come on his terms (unless he decided to stay another month....LOL) Went into labor on my due date.

fauxbunny · April 2009

What I'm convinced "worked" for me is...

Pizza with hot peppers and pineapples. YUMMY!! I had some the night before labour started, and then hours before I felt the contractions start up. Whoo hoo!

It's a pizza combo I get anyway, but everyone said spicy things and pineapples, so that made it easy for me to handle!

ETA: He was born at almost 43 weeks. I was going to be induced two days after I went into labour (he was born the next day!)

TheJohns · April 2009

i tried all that and more... the membrane stripping worked for me, but on the 3rd try. save your energy, you're gonna need it to take care of a baby!

Lara_Lu · April 2009

Sex might have helped me but I don't know for sure. However, during labor, I was stuck at 3cm for a while and then I credit nipple stim to fully dilating in 30-40minutes!!

ryeslady · April 2009

I dropped at 35 weeks and thought for sure I would go before my dd. I walked, had sex, ate spicy things, ate curry, did hula hooping on wii fit (which always brought on hard contractions, but no real labor) everything I read could start labor (besides castor oil and nipple stim) and G was still born a week late and I had to be induced.

mrskeller825 · April 2009

Nothing for me- we were induced after 41 weeks. Maybe it helped with the effacing, but did nothing to bring on labor.

**MrsD** · April 2009

I walked 3 miles the day before I had DS. I'm convinced this at least helped the process!

pkate98 · April 2009

I tried those methods for a week and they didn't really do anything for me. I was induced.

meganet22 · April 2009

i walked all the time, it was around christmas, so i went to the mall every chance i could get, it was warm the day before and the day of my due date so me and dh took long walks outside, i ended up needing a c-section so nothing i could have done would have worked.

katlizabeth · April 2009

I think the stomach flu worked for me, lol. Seriously, he came two weeks early, right after I had the stomach flu and while I had the flu he was moving like crazy-I can't imagine wanting to be in someone whose stomach was churning like crazy!

etoussa · April 2009

I didn't try any of those...I had pineapple on Sunday night and ended up having labor on Monday @ 1 o'clock in the morning and had my baby @ 7:31 pm...I think pineapple worked for me

Solelle · April 2009

katlizabeth:
I think the stomach flu worked for me, lol. Seriously, he came two weeks early, right after I had the stomach flu and while I had the flu he was moving like crazy-I can't imagine wanting to be in someone whose stomach was churning like crazy!

Same here. I had food poisoning about 1.5 weeks before I went into labor. I also did all of the tricks starting from 36 weeks though, bouncing on a ball every day, eating spicy foods, pineapple/mango, sex, membranes stripping. lol. I went into labor at 38 weeks, 4 days - the week i had my membranes stripped and the night i had some uh rigorous sex.

TeamK07 · April 2009

I did all of those things plus ate spicey food on a Friday and my water broke that Saturday at 2AM. He was two weeks early. So I'd like to think that they helped, but who knows!

preg_amy · April 2009

I did just about EVERYTHING (except castor oil... couldn't bring myself to do that).

-Red Raspberry leaf tea (at least 3 times a day, sometimes more, for 3 weeks)
-Pineapple (tons! it was yummy)
-Bouncing on a ball (I did this a lot)
-Lots of sex (I lost my mucous plug after sex one night about 5 days before I had DS, I also laid on my back with my feet in the air to get the prostaglandins to do their magic)
-Lots of walking
-Some spicy food, I have a sensitive palette
-Wii sports
-Evening Primrose Oil capsules (orally)
-I bought Black Cohosh, but was too scared to use it
-Had my membranes stripped 3 times

I'm sure there's probably something that I'm forgetting. But after all this, I had DS 8 days after my due date. I had to have a c-section because I never progressed past 1 cm (which I had been at for 3 weeks) and never got more than 80% effaced, even after I had my membranes artificially ruptured, been pumped full of pitocin, had straight prostaglandin gel applied to my cervix, and had been in labor for well over 24 hours.

In conclusion, I felt like I was doing something by doing all of these things and that helped me get through the last weeks. Do what you want to do to get yourself going. My doctor did highly recommend sex.

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