I've been told by relatives and friends that having some foods help dilate easily. These include: Dates, figs, ginger tea, pineapple, fish etc. basically foods that increase metabolism naturally.. Warm in nature. one of the fellows second it with her birth story and said she was 5-6cm dilated at home with her 2 pregnancies without any significant pain and contractions when she visited hospital for routine checkup at 39weeks. 3-4hrs of labor and she was holding her baby in arms.
Any thoughts and experiences? I'm a First time mom and have no clue what will help n what not. Read the primrose oil thread lately.
A number of articles are available online that says pineapple help ripen cervix due to certain enzymes in it.
This is what I asked in the first place; is there any reality to these myths or not in your previous experiences Just read the 5cm dilated thread, a number of redpondants there said they were 4-7cm dilated with absolutely no pain and sign of active labor. May be something helped or it' just happened naturally with them?
Ditto on the dates, I did read a study about that. I've also heard pineapple and raspberry leaf tea, although the tea is more for contractions and labor than dilation I think.
TTC since Sept 2011, Unexplained IF Oct 12 - Jan 14: 3 clomid/TI cycles, 2 hysteroscopies, 2 IUIs, 1 BFP (MMC @ 12w), 2 more IUIs Feb 14: Gonal-f + IUI #5 = BFP! (EDD 11/4/14) Baby boy arrived 11/13/14!
It doesn't hurt to try, but the amounts of these foods you would have to eat to actually get them to work are huge. I did eat some.pineapple when I was over due with dd though. It doesn't hurt to try
Re: Super foods in last 2-3weeks
This is what I asked in the first place; is there any reality to these myths or not in your previous experiences
Just read the 5cm dilated thread, a number of redpondants there said they were 4-7cm dilated with absolutely no pain and sign of active labor. May be something helped or it' just happened naturally with them?
Good luck everyone. Keep smiling
But I ate pinapple core when I was prepping for IVF, so who am I to judge? :-)
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TTC since Sept 2011, Unexplained IF
Oct 12 - Jan 14: 3 clomid/TI cycles, 2 hysteroscopies, 2 IUIs, 1 BFP (MMC @ 12w), 2 more IUIs
Feb 14: Gonal-f + IUI #5 = BFP! (EDD 11/4/14)
Baby boy arrived 11/13/14!