There are lots of things you can do to help yourself be ready and I used all of them:
- raspberry leaf tea tablets or tea (I credit this with my fairly quick first stage of labour: first sign of labour till fully dialated was 6 hours - not bad for a first timer)
- evening primose oil taken both orally and at the cervix (softens things up)
- prayer! (lots of women at my church were praying I would go into labour before the induction that was booked for 13 days overdue and I went into natural labour 12 days overdue!)
- DTD
-clary sage oil in a bath

Of course you need to check with your health professional, because you don't want bubs to come too early and also to interfer with your medical condition.

HTH