Full moon and labor?

Re: Full moon and labor?

• WashingtonQueen member

  September 2014

  Nope, don't believe in Old Wives Tales one single bit.

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• tbarker14 member

  September 2014

  Nope, the baby will come when it's ready to come. Full moon or not!
  

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• xobarbiiexo3 member

  September 2014

  Currently 40w1d and I am all for believing this fool moon wives tale because there is one coming up lol. Keeping my fingers crossed for all of us!!

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• Justabean3 member

  September 2014

  Ya I know the crazy comes out and it's busier but if you are not destined to be in labor that day it won't cause it.

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• amstevens78 member

  September 2014

  Thanks everyone for all your replies. I am not sure if I believe it or not, just thought I would ask to see if anyone had ever experienced anything like this or just your general thoughts on it. I love to see everyone's responses.

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• Ravenbaby member

  September 2014

  I kinda do believe it to some degree

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• conradraging member

  September 2014

  With the amount of "so and so is in labor" posts on my bmb, I'm tempted to believe it.

  
  

  
  

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• aodom52309 member

  September 2014

  I have personal experience because I'm a L&D nurse. I use to not believe the OWT either until I started working there. It is typically busier with women coming in because their water broke. And it's not always only the day of the full moon, usually it's a couple days before and last through the day of the full moon. So I'm a believer.

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• KMW08 member

  September 2014

  I'm a believer. Never worked on L&D, but I do live on a farm. Our cows are much more likely to calf (at the end of their gestation) if there's a full moon or a huge weather shift. It's really crazy stuff

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• thegoodpotato

  September 2014

  I actually asked my midwife this last year, because the July Supermoon was right around DD2's due date (within a few days), and I really didn't want to end up going 41+ weeks like I did with my first.  (I ended up with an induction at 41.5w)
  
  She said the new moon and the full moon can affect you, but what really puts a lot of women into labour is large changes in barometric pressure.  So if there's a storm-a-brewin' you're more likely to go into labour than with a full moon.
  
  (And I think this is based on her anecdotal experience more than anything else) 
  

  

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• peanutbuttervibes member

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  thegoodpotato said:

  I actually asked my midwife this last year, because the July Supermoon was right around DD2's due date (within a few days), and I really didn't want to end up going 41+ weeks like I did with my first.  (I ended up with an induction at 41.5w)
  
  She said the new moon and the full moon can affect you, but what really puts a lot of women into labour is large changes in barometric pressure.  So if there's a storm-a-brewin' you're more likely to go into labour than with a full moon.
  
  (And I think this is based on her anecdotal experience more than anything else) 
  

  Damn, I hope this is true because we had a huge storm last night! That plus the full moon tonight has to get this baby out, right???
  

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• amstevens78 member

  September 2014

  I am just curious to see how many if any go into labor tonight. Just for shits and giggles!

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