2nd time (or more) moms....question

what did u do, if anything, that u believe brought on ur labor the first time u were pregnant? vegalady inspired this post by saying she did a lot of walking and squats anyone else?

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Hayley was an emergency c-section at 35 weeks so I have no clue on how to bring on labor

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Posted by 2003fallwedding

Hayley was an emergency c-section at 35 weeks so I have no clue on how to bring on labor

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I did 8 loads of laundry and the washer and dryer were in the basement so I went up and down those stairs like 100 x's 8 hrs before I went into labor

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I was 11 days late....so when I went for my internals...my doctor stripped my membranes. Two days later I had lost my mucous plug and my water broke.

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haven't gone into labor on my own YET....my 2 were elected inductions

ETA: I had my membranes stripped BOTH TIMES and it did NOTHING

#1 was because we hit our due date and I got stuck at 2 cm

#2 was induced to make life a little easier with having someone to watch DD

#3 we're hoping to induce after the IL arrive so they can take care of the kids and not disrupt their daily routine too much

Message edited 8/15/2008 11:36:49 AM.

Re: 2nd time (or more) moms....question

i ate a hot dog. i was 2 weeks over due and my next door neighbor was having a bbq and insisted i have one and when i said no she said it would bring labor on and sure enough it did (probably total coincidence though)

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With dd, lots and lots and lots of walking.

With ds, my water broke the night Dh gave me a deep foot massage.

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I was moving furniture, putting the crib together, and painting the nursery till 11:30 pm. Two hours later I woke up and was having contractions and was 4 cm dilated. Four hours after that my was here. As I was helping move mattresses and stuff, I even turned to Chris and said.. "You just watch, baby will be here tomorrow with all this work that I am doing." And sure enough... he was. He came a little early at 37 weeks

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you can BD

or eat something spicy

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I did alot of walking the day before and my dh took me to cheese cake factory (its was my b-day) and i had the louisanna chicken dish (spicey).. woke up in labor the next morning.

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i literally ran up and down my stairs and did jumping jacks...sounds crazy, and who knows if thats what really did it, but I totally did not want to go past my due date!!

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I didn't do anything - he was ready when he was ready.

I ended up needing an emer. cs, but I had my contractions for 24 hrs. before we even started pushing.


the baby will let you know...

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DH and I had gone out to the mall and walked around all day, then, went for a walk (in the bitter cold) that night. The next morning I woke up feeling funny and started timing contractions a little while later.

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Posted by JenandMikey

Posted by 2003fallwedding

Hayley was an emergency c-section at 35 weeks so I have no clue on how to bring on labor

ok so then this post is for u too