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Your experience with acupuncture? I'm 41 weeks today

BadgerBaby01BadgerBaby01
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I'm 41 weeks today with no complications apart from a baby who's content to stay put. :) Per recommendation by my doula, I'm getting acupuncture done this evening. Does anyone have experience with acupuncture to induce labor? I'd like to know your stories! 
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Re: Your experience with acupuncture? I'm 41 weeks today

  • kegkeg member
    Even though I have an awesome OB, I was looking at an induction starting the evening of 41w4d (a Saturday).  I had an acupuncture session on Thursday afternoon (41w2d).  I went into labor on my own Saturday morning.  Did the acupuncture session help?  I don't know for certain but it certainly didn't hurt!  Good luck! 
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  • sschwegesschwege member

    I think it definitely helped to get my body ready, but whether it put me into full blown labor, I'm just not sure.

    With my first I had acupuncture on a Friday and Saturday (EDD) and went into labor early Tuesday morning.  On Friday night after I had the acupuncture, I laid down to go to sleep when I had this terrible sciatic nerve pain. It just kept happening all the while I could feel DD moving around a lot.  When I woke up the next morning she had visibly dropped, even DH could tell, it was a huge difference from the day before.  

    That's where I'm pretty sure it helped was to get DD in a good position and get my body ready.  I had both my babies at 40w3d (charting), so that might just be how long my body thinks it takes to 'cook' a baby. 

    Best of luck, if nothing else, it's really relaxing! 

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  • mexicolombianamexicolombiana member
    I had acupuncture done ALL over the points that are "supposed" to induce labor at 41 wks and went into labor the next day! I can't say if it was cause and effect but I like to believe it was!




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  • wren444wren444

    I am an acupuncturist and I have seen it work plenty. If you have already started to have mild contractions, efface or dilate it is much more likely to have an obvious effect. It often takes 2-4 treatments before we see a woman go into into labor (within 24 hours of treatment) but like PP said, the treatments may still help get the baby moving into a more favorable position which ultimately helps get things going - just not so fast you would necessarily associate it. It's very common to have baby get active and/or for you to have contractions during treatment, if the treatment is done properly.

    The most obvious induction my clinic has seen was a few months ago when a woman who was scheduled for a medical induction that afternoon came in for acupuncture first thing in the morning, already having mild contractions. Her water broke (due to the increase in intensity of contractions) on the table and she transported directly to hospital for delivery! 

    I am planning to do treatments every other day after I hit 40 weeks...I really don't think it can hurt in anyway, and it's pretty relaxing even if it doesn't.

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  • cheesecakerunnercheesecakerunner member
    I had pree and was facing chemical induction when I got acupuncture. I was 3cm, 80 effaced when I went in and having mild contractions. During treatment, they got much stronger and within three hours, my water broke and active labor began. Six hours later, baby boy was born drug free!

    I also got a chiropractic adjustment, bounced on the birth ball and drank a smoothie made of a while pineapple, as pint of raspberries and parsely.

    Not sure which of those worked, since I did all in one afternoon in an effort to dodge cervadil.

    Keep us posted!
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  • Katie9841Katie9841 member
    Tomorrow I'm headed in for my first acupuncture session.  I'm three days past my due date (my ticker is wrong below) and think its worth a try.  Ill let you ladies know how it goes!
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  • Katie9841Katie9841 member
    Checking in...  So I had acupuncture yesterday and today.  Still no baby... 
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  • nosoup4unosoup4u member
    I had three sessions of acupuncture when I was overdue with DS2 - I started labor with them after the third session. It certainly doesn't hurt anything.
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  • SidraJediSidraJedi member

    imagenosoup4u:
    I had three sessions of acupuncture when I was overdue with DS2 - I started labor with them after the third session. It certainly doesn't hurt anything.

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