Tips for going into Labor?

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Registered: 11-05-2004
Tips for going into Labor?
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Tue, 11-01-2005 - 3:16pm
Ok,
I would appreciate anyone's tip to put me into labor, haha. I want it to happen naturally and I'm almost there, 3 cm dilated, 70% effaced, I feel like I just need an extra little push. I've been trying sex, walking up & down stairs, and walking..anything else I should be doing?:)

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Registered: 11-13-2003
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 4:57pm

Sex and walking are the big ones. There's always the old drinking cod liver oil (I think) one...but I've never tried it, and have heard that all it does is cause diahreah and cramps, that some poeple swear are contractions, but all it is, is thier body wreching to get it out lol.

Woman in family swear by eating greasy chinesse food and laughing alot...again, not tried by me, but the gals in my family swear by it lol.

Hang in there Kate. You're almost there!!!

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Tue, 11-01-2005 - 4:58pm
I forgot, some people say that nipple stimpulation helps as well. I dont know...

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Tue, 11-01-2005 - 6:08pm
I think I will stay away from the Chinese food and liver oil, yuck :( Im going to keep having sex and walking, hopefully by Friday something will have changed!

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Registered: 09-21-2004
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 7:21pm

Just some advice to everyone do NOT take cod liver oil for labor induction, you could poison yourself with vitamin D! Okay I think Lesley meant Castor Oil which some women swear does bring on labor. lol


Here are a few websites I found about it....


http://www.beyondfertility.com/art71.htm


http://www.pregnancy-info.net/labor_inducing_labor.html


Scroll to bottom for the at home remedies.


http://www.americanbaby.com/ab/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ab/story/data/9207.xml&catref=cat1880181

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Tue, 11-01-2005 - 7:32pm

ok Traci & Mel, please excuse the hat, but this is urgent!!!


KATE & EVERYONE ELSE:


NEVER drink castor oil to induce labor... it can cause meconium to pass into the amniotic fluid and be ingested by the baby (besides, all it does is cause stomach cramping

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Tue, 11-01-2005 - 8:01pm

No worries about the hat...yeah I just read that on one of the sites I posted. I have a few friends who actually used it with success but but funny enough I realized that all of them had c-sections and I wonder if there is a correlation? It seems the universal idea of either nipple stimulation or sex is widely accepted as safe.


Traci

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Tue, 11-01-2005 - 8:36pm
Traci,
thanks soo much for the websites! I really DONT want to be induced with pitocin, so, hopefully the things I am trying helps me a little more :)

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Tue, 11-01-2005 - 8:39pm
Don't worry Desiree, I would NEEVER EVER try castor oil! I have read many bad things about it...I was thinking of more natural ways, like walking, or doing lunges or SOMEthing :) I would never take any kind of pill to bring on labor.

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Registered: 11-13-2003
Wed, 11-02-2005 - 9:54am
thats it lol...castor oil!!! Thats what I meant. Either way, DONT do it Kate lol. From what i've heard, you would regret it!

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