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Evening primrose oil?

DreamDisneyDreamDisney member
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Any mom use this for preventing of tearing or anything else and see beneficial results? Thank you :)
Pregnancy discovered at 12 weeks 12/2007 - D&C at 13 Weeks due to partial Ectopic pregnancy/Body rejecting pregnancy. Last Pregnancy - EDD August 2013 TTC Our first miracle baby.
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Re: Evening primrose oil?

  • NaenaNaena member
    I used this for two weeks before I delivered. I ended up delivering two days early and had to have two stiches ( my daughter weight 8.10 lbs at birth). I don't know if it helped, but it didn't hurt,?
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    I don't know about preventing tearing. I used it from 37 weeks, and delivered 39 weeks. I had a 3rd degree tear (but he came out with one hand like super man). I can say that I think it attributed to my quick labor. 11 hours total and went from 6-10 in like 2 hours (FTM hear that's not bad at all). No harm in giving it a shot! HTH

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  • DreamDisneyDreamDisney member
    Thank you :) well I'm 40 weeks Tuesday so I doubt this late in the game it'll help anything I think.
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  • TheLittleRedMTheLittleRedM member
    Hm. I started using small amounts of it (500-1000mg) once a day starting at 37 weeks and a few days before I went into labor I had increased to about 3000mg a day. I had an itty bitty tear that my midwife compared to a small paper cut but that's it. I can't really say for sure if it helped me progress with softening my cervix but I like to think it (along with raspberry leaf tea) certainly helped ripen my cervix so I didn't labor for a long time. I guess I'll have to wait and see how the next baby goes before deciding if it really worked :)
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  • HannahsHopeHannahsHope member
    I did not use it for tearing prevention, as much as I did for softening/ripening my cervix. I took 2000mg orally. My OB did not recommend using it vaginally. I started it at 36wks. I also drank red raspberry leaf tea. At 38wks I "induced myself" with castor oil, and I had my baby 15hrs later. I had one small 2nd degree tear, and one 1st degree. Not bad.
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  • DreamDisneyDreamDisney member
    Well I'm only a cm and 50% at -2 and my due date is tomorrow. She does not want to come out & I get that. I did read that a lot of moms thought it helped with the tearing. So I was curious if anyone else had heard this. I did all those stupid wives tales since I turned 39 weeks. Really to prove a point. Babies don't come out until they're ready I believe. I've only had this progression for the last 3 weeks. Or I should say lack. So I thought id keep taking it if a lot of moms said it helped with tearing. While I don't think I will have a huge baby... I just figured id be proactive.
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