Castor oil?

Re: Castor oil?

• tdart14 member

  April 2015

  This has been discussed many times and the consensus has more or less been to not do it cause all that happens is you get the shits. Maybe you'll end up in labor with how your digestive tract is being forceful emptied, but you would have fun shitting a ton and potentially on the bed while pushing to.
  
  Just no.

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• tdart14 member

  April 2015

  This is the discussion from April 2015.
  
  
  https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12551419/castor-oil

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• QueenVict0ria member

  April 2015

  ^^^ this exactly. I had a woman tell me "i took it and 8 hr later had A baby but its also a laxative so ur either going to have a really pleasant day or really bad one!" So yea u could end up with diarrhea and puking which can lead to dehydration which is not good for baby or an ideal way to go into labor. there are much more pleasant ways to induce labor

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• khaleesi123 member

  April 2015

  The only thing proven to help induce is nipple stimulation.

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• HaruhiChan member

  April 2015

  Couldn't pay me to drink it lol

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• MommaMacri member

  April 2015

  NO NO NO I promise you

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• manacita member

  April 2015

  I did it for ds and dd once they were full term. I took 1 tablespoon (not the 4 you read about online!) and chased it with soda. I was in labor 4-6 hours later with each of them and had both within 24 hours. It did act as a mild laxative, but no more than really spicy food, Indian food, or colace. I probably pooped well (for the first time in months!) within 1-2 hours of taking it and then was done. Didn't poop while pushing ds. Did poop while pushing dd. But she was in a rush to escape and just elbowed those turds out of her way in transit.

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• khaleesi123 member

  April 2015

  manacita said:

  I did it for ds and dd once they were full term. I took 1 tablespoon (not the 4 you read about online!) and chased it with soda. I was in labor 4-6 hours later with each of them and had both within 24 hours. It did act as a mild laxative, but no more than really spicy food, Indian food, or colace. I probably pooped well (for the first time in months!) within 1-2 hours of taking it and then was done. Didn't poop while pushing ds. Did poop while pushing dd. But she was in a rush to escape and just elbowed those turds out of her way in transit.

  Hahaha your story is too funny!
  

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• ellekru member

  April 2015

  manacita said:

  I did it for ds and dd once they were full term. I took 1 tablespoon (not the 4 you read about online!) and chased it with soda. I was in labor 4-6 hours later with each of them and had both within 24 hours. It did act as a mild laxative, but no more than really spicy food, Indian food, or colace. I probably pooped well (for the first time in months!) within 1-2 hours of taking it and then was done. Didn't poop while pushing ds. Did poop while pushing dd. But she was in a rush to escape and just elbowed those turds out of her way in transit.

  Do you plan on taking it again?! It just sounds too easy haha
  

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• Shanfrey82 member

  April 2015

  This is an awful idea, it can cause the baby to have the maconium inside the womb. And there are zero proven facts that it works, if it has worked for anyone then they were already going into labor and this was a coincidence.

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• ArcadianDreams member

  April 2015 edited April 2015

  I've seen it work for a number of people, however the people who, IME, have better luck using it seem to be second timers who are already past their due date. First timers are more likely to have it fizzle out, they tend to go into labor later anyway and like other methods like membrane stripping, if your body just isn't ready it isn't going to take.

  
  

  I'll admit I tried it with my first son. It fizzled out the first try. Waited a few days, tried again. That one took, although it took a while for labor to really get going.

  
  

  I'm less worried about avoiding induction this time, so not currently planning to try it again. I want to see what my body will due left to it's own.

  Raising a threenager since 11/11

  Baby boy #2 due 5/6/15

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• thing3ontheway member

  April 2015

  Shanfrey82 said:

  This is an awful idea, it can cause the baby to have the maconium inside the womb. And there are zero proven facts that it works, if it has worked for anyone then they were already going into labor and this was a coincidence.

  Exactly this. Why chance your baby eating poop and causing health problems?!?

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• ArcadianDreams member

  April 2015

  thing3ontheway said:

  Shanfrey82 said:

  This is an awful idea, it can cause the baby to have the maconium inside the womb. And there are zero proven facts that it works, if it has worked for anyone then they were already going into labor and this was a coincidence.

  Exactly this. Why chance your baby eating poop and causing health problems?!?

  For clarity, the risk from meconium to the baby isn't from swallowing it, it's from inhaling it.

  Raising a threenager since 11/11

  Baby boy #2 due 5/6/15

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• amandac121 member

  April 2015

  I used Castor Oil for my first child.. I mixed 4 tsps with ginger ale and within an hour I started having contractions and was in full blown labor 3 hours after taking it. No complications for me and it didnt make me have to use the bathroom but everyone is different.

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• HaruhiChan member

  April 2015

  ArcadianDreams said:

  thing3ontheway said:

  Shanfrey82 said:

  This is an awful idea, it can cause the baby to have the maconium inside the womb. And there are zero proven facts that it works, if it has worked for anyone then they were already going into labor and this was a coincidence.

  Exactly this. Why chance your baby eating poop and causing health problems?!?

  For clarity, the risk from meconium to the baby isn't from swallowing it, it's from inhaling it.

  Don't babies "breathe" the amniotic fluid?
  
  Maybe I have the wrong idea here. Call me an idiot if I am wrong lol

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• cpage2211 member

  April 2015

  Just play with your nipples. It seems like a much more pleasant way to try and get things going

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• mars8k member

  April 2015

  Lmao!!!! That cracked me up!!
  I bought a bottle but i'm not sure i'll use it.. Just keeping it there

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• ekaeb member

  April 2015

  I have a few moms tell me it worked for them one mom did it with all 3 her baby's and it worked each time for her! I been having period like cramps for two weeks and painful long contractions but nothing yet! I'm thinking of taking it next week if I have nothing going on yet!

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• manacita member

  April 2015

  Maybe? I don't know yet. I am having a much more painful pregnancy this time. I don't know what is different from my previous two, but something sure as hell is. So, given my discomfort, I might. Especially if baby stick around past my due date. I can't imagine having this amount of pain for another full month. But I labored so quickly with my daughter that I'm scared taking castor oil would speed up an already quick process. I do not want to deliver without an epidural, and they almost missed the window with dd.
  
  And there is no rigorous scientific medical study that shows an increased risk of baby pooping in the womb with castor oil. The laxative molecule is too big to pass through the placenta. The danger is taking too much, giving yourself a raging case of the vomiting poops, and then becoming super dehydrated.

  ellekru said:

  manacita said:

  I did it for ds and dd once they were full term. I took 1 tablespoon (not the 4 you read about online!) and chased it with soda. I was in labor 4-6 hours later with each of them and had both within 24 hours. It did act as a mild laxative, but no more than really spicy food, Indian food, or colace. I probably pooped well (for the first time in months!) within 1-2 hours of taking it and then was done. Didn't poop while pushing ds. Did poop while pushing dd. But she was in a rush to escape and just elbowed those turds out of her way in transit.

  Do you plan on taking it again?! It just sounds too easy haha
  

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• ArcadianDreams member

  April 2015

  HaruhiChan said:

  ArcadianDreams said:

  thing3ontheway said:

  Shanfrey82 said:

  This is an awful idea, it can cause the baby to have the maconium inside the womb. And there are zero proven facts that it works, if it has worked for anyone then they were already going into labor and this was a coincidence.

  Exactly this. Why chance your baby eating poop and causing health problems?!?

  For clarity, the risk from meconium to the baby isn't from swallowing it, it's from inhaling it.

  Don't babies "breathe" the amniotic fluid?
  
  Maybe I have the wrong idea here. Call me an idiot if I am wrong lol

  Right, they breathe it in and out and doing so actually helps their lungs mature and get stronger. They do also swallow the amniotic fluid, but there's no bacteria in the poop/fluid (yet), so there's nothing like e. coli present that would make them sick.

  
  

  What can happen when they get the meconium in their lungs is that it's thicker than the regular fluid, and after they're born it can get clogged up and make it hard for them to get enough oxygen. It's called meconium aspiration syndrome. When a baby is born in a meconium delivery they'll get extra monitoring for the first day or two to make sure they aren't having trouble breathing.

  Raising a threenager since 11/11

  Baby boy #2 due 5/6/15

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• taboullio84 member

  April 2015

  Used it with my third pregnancy. I had the poops all day. No labor. Just regrets. Big $#!tty regrets. Lol

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