Ways to Induce Labor...

Re: Ways to Induce Labor...

• fallynanjel member

  April 2015

  Nothing really works unless your body is ready, but it's all just the same things you've probably already heard. Sex, walking, but nipple stimulation, that is similar to a nursing baby, will actually cause contractions. Pressure points work too. YouTube is a good source to learn how and where. There are plenty more, but nothing that is proven. I've been doing this stuff and more and I'm still past my due date with no progress. My body's just not ready.

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• bella0893 member

  April 2015

  I'm with you on this, 2cm dilated and cervix still high up =( cramps on and off and nothing.

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• mariyahgillis member

  April 2015

  I'm in the same situation. A friend said echinacea tea helped her. I'm trying that tomorrow. Also, walking up big hills. Eating pineapples. Swimming for an hour or more. Doing squats. Even making the baby uncomfortable has put another of my friends in labor. She would crouch in awkward positions or sit in wired positions to make the baby move out of discomfort.

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• babs3137 member

  April 2015

  That's interesting I haven't heard of pineapples before !

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• juliaandpatrick member

  April 2015

  babs3137 said:

  That's interesting I haven't heard of pineapples before !

  In order for that to work you would need to eat a whole pineapple a day. Nothing is proven to work though aside from sex (there's a hormone in semen that is the same hormone used when being induced).
  Although it may be uncomfortable to you, let your baby stay in and develop further. Your LO will come when he/she is ready.

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• Coco118 member

  April 2015

  Even sex doesn't work unless your body/baby is ready. I know because we've been at it 1-2 times a day for the last 2 weeks and I'm at 40w + 5d! Really, you can try every old wives tale... Baby comes when baby wants to come. Or when medically induced.

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• thing3ontheway member

  April 2015

  Yeah sex and EPO is not working for me here either (

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• CivilMommy member

  April 2015

  Well, since you aren't actually overdue yet...my answer will be give it time.  The lungs are the last thing to mature, so why rush the kid out if they are still developing?

  
  

  google can help you with other ideas if you are trying to rush the baby out before it is ready.

  
  

   - says the lady who had to have 39w inductions for medical reasons and was worried about her babies not being ready yet -

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• houser1406 member

  April 2015

  I'm 40+3 and have tried it all...baby will come when they're ready

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• ejz98ric02 member

  April 2015

  My OB said that the baby doesn't have to "drop" and your cervix doesn't have to be dilated in order to go into labor. So let's not get hung up on what should and shouldn't be happening. It'll happen.

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