Im about to do, yet another essay:)
I need to reasearch then write an essay on a natrual induction. Just one....
Im looking around, but Id love to pick your lovely brains!
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Im about to do, yet another essay:)
I need to reasearch then write an essay on a natrual induction. Just one....
Im looking around, but Id love to pick your lovely brains!
:bump:
female orgasm :)
:yeahthat: ;)
uummm i wont be much help here but when i was over due with claire i was told sex and nipple stimulation are 2 of the best way of natural induction, which you would already know so doesnt really help write your essay does it!
Raspberry leaf tea and scrubbing the laundry floor seemed to work for me! A good dose of both on the Friday afternoon and I went into natural labour the following morning. My waters broke within an hour of the first little niggly contractions.
With my last 2 children, I took raspberry leaf tea tablets from 34 weeks.
*****TMI ALERT!!*****
Around my due dates DH & I dtd and I left the semen inside me rather than hopping up and showering like I usually would. After each time of doing this, I woke up with contractions that lead to full blown labour.
These are great ladies!!!! Keep them coming:)
I will admit :( a couple of days before my due date i had some 'special contractions of my own' lol
and each time it would bring on BH something shocking untill the day i gave birth it brought on labour contractions , i still think that is what did it for me
Acupuncture and chinese medicine - I had 3 weeks of pre-labour, contractions and lost my plug after every session.
I tried lots of things...spicy food, long walks, DTD, raspberry leaf tea, swinging on a kids swing, and walking sideways up and down the stairs. I didn't try the castor oil, or EPO or nipple stimulation. Acupuncture really seemed to get things going for me. The contractions would start almost immediately after each session.
I DTD a few hours before going into labour though, maybe that was the real trick. :)
Acupuncture.
Chiropractic treatment (for me it was to open my pelvis because baby hadn't engaged, but I went into labour less than 7 hours later at 41+1).
Massage therapists can perform some massage on "induction" points, like acupuncture.
Female orgasm.
Walking.
For me - I had several acupuncture treatments every two or three days in the last three weeks of the pregnancy. They were to prepare for labour, but as time wore on the treatment became stronger on the induction acupressure points. (I'm aware that there's a point on your ankle which, when pressed on either in massage or acupuncture, can bring on contractions. Most therapists won't touch your ankles until you're well over 38 weeks).
Anyway, at 41 weeks I had acupuncture in the morning, a massage in the afternoon followed by an hour-long walk in the evening. The following morning I had chiro treatment, and within 7 hours I was in labour. I think a combination of all of the above did it in the end (and the fact that I was past my EDD of course :D)
I've heard of castor oil doing the trick but I don't think that's really based on any evidence, and just opens the bowels. *TMI* My sister did the castor oil trick and says that diarrhea and simultaneous waters breaking is not nice :sick:
i seriously did everything
sex
reflexology
bouncing on a fit ball
walking
cleaning
vacuuming
4WD on a bouncy dirt track
a whole bucket load of herbs etc etc
NOTHING worked!!
My doula told me that a sure fire way is to ....TMI......Drink seaman....icky...but she said it works?????
I think you should just make plans you really want to keep...babies like coming when you have something on :rofl:
I think natural induction methods only really work if your body's about ready to go anyway.
What is your essay on exactly? Do you mean you have to pick one method and discuss that?
Oh dear... I hope my DH doesn't hear of this! lol:
You mean like a ****tail? :p:
Yes but Ill go above and beyond and touch on others:) Plus you ladies come up a lot in my chats with my coach:
I so wont be suggesting this one!:
I did a MASSIVE grocery shop. By myself. Pushed it round, loaded into the car, carried it all up the stairs, put it all away. Seriously, I think the trolley was full. I had big ideas of cooking up a storm the next day to have stuff in the freezer... I went into labour at 1am the next morning. No cooking got done :rolleyes:
Is that like a seashanty?
:rofl: Ewwwwwww :P:
:rofl: mmmmm, Ill do an essay on that ****tail?
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Yeah I read that too. Something about a oxytocin bring absorbed thru the gut quicker. We tried that too XD my babies just think I'm comfy!!
Im going to touch on a lot of these, if not mentin them all....
I think I will research sex /the link to seaman as a natural induction and do the essay on that?
When you have an induced labour through a hospital, they use prostaglandin gels to ripen your cervix for labour. Semen is made up of prostaglandins (prosta = prostate) so obviously leaving semen inside you after sex could have a similar effect. My step aunt is a midwife and this is something she told me years ago.
Just something interesting to know:
Apparently to actually induce labour you need 1 litre of semen... and it is more effective orally...
Who want's to drink a litre of semen?!?!?!? Why would the MW say that! haha
There's an article on the main site with a bit of info.
Thanks ladies:)
Kelly- Ill go have a read now:)