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MommaBear
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Give me all your labor inducing wives tales!
I'm totally stressing about how big this little girl is going to be at 40 weeks or beyond if she's 8.8 now at 38 weeks. I've started operation eviction. Give me all the laboring inducing wives tales you've ever heard of...I'm going to try them all!
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
These are the ones I heard:
Spicy food
Pineapple
Strenuous exercise (like running). Not sure about this one because I exercises regularly and never induced myself.
Sex
Castor oil
****** (lol have fun  )
Raspberry leaf
Good luck!!!
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| Posted 2/15/11 7:54 AM |
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
Posted by KevinNKristin8-15-08
These are the ones I heard:
Spicy food
Pineapple
Strenuous exercise (like running). Not sure about this one because I exercises regularly and never induced myself.
Sex
Castor oil
****** (lol have fun )
Raspberry leaf
Good luck!!!
Lol. The second to last is the big O ( it wouldn't let me type it out!!!)
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| Posted 2/15/11 8:01 AM |
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
I already posted on LIW but I think most of these don't really work but you sure can try them. .
sex actually can (especially as Kristi said with the  ) bc the O releases basically a natural ocytocin which is what does contractions. .
also a lot of the books say "nipple play"
(OMG so far I feel like I'm writing a sex column  )
also have heard
- raspberry tea
- acupuncture
- chiropractic
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BabyLoveBug143
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Jessica
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
foot massage!!
sex
walking
jumping jacks
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VTTG0609
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
I tried everything because I knew Ds was going to be BIG.
I walked and walked and walked, went to buffalo wild wings ate spicy,  many many times, had an "aggressive" internal and nipple stimulation.
I never did the caster oil because I heard it only gave you the runs.
NOTHING worked DS was 1w 4days late.
Good luck!!
Oh BTW DS was 9lbs 4oz at birth.
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sunflowerjesss
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
Sit on yoga ball, and do small circles in both directions. I would do this in the living room while watching tv when pregnant wit hDS. That is supposed to help open your pelvis and help the head descend.
Sex. I have heard that the big O does something as well as sperm. No need to pull and pray, you already did that damage 
Castor Oil. I drank it, mixed with Grape Juice, the WHOLE bottle. It really only gave me the runs...tmi, sorry...but supposedly cleaning out your system is supposed to trigger something.
Walking. Lots and lots of walking.
Very long foot massage. There are pressure points in your feet that are supposed to trigger your uterus to contract.
There is an eggplant recipe somewhere on these boards that supposedly has something to do with labor, but I never tried it.
Spicy foods. Never tried it, I always had bad enough heartburn I needed no help in that field.
Acupuncture. Never tried that either.
Red Raspberry Leaf tea. Drink it. Lots of it.
DS was 9lbs3oz at delivery....38w6d! 
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kiwi86
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
I just finished emailing my moms best friend who is a midwife. I told her that I am DONE being pregnant and that I was going to try walking a lot, acupuncture, and a pedicure with a long foot massage. Her response was to not bother with ANY of them. Just have sex.
She wrote "Sperm is made up of prostaglandins, which is what we use to induce women, but it's artificial in it's form. It gets inserted in the back of the vagina, behind the cervix. Sperm is the natural form. It helps to thin out the cervix, cause contractions, and hopefully puts you into active labor. That combined with the full moon on Friday and you should be good to go".
So.....as awful and complicated as sex actually sounds these days, that's my plan 
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MrsH2009
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
To add to the above, I heard eating eggplant can bring on labor. Good luck!!!!
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MrsJakob
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Danielle
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
They've all been listed.
I remember Lana posting thisEggplant
If anything does work, please let me know. I can't be pregnant any longer. kthxbye.
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sarahbelle
Little drummer boy
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
Lots of Sperm and the big O are supposed to soften your cervix.
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miamimerger
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Laura
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
I've tried them all minus the caster oil (and I'm not planning on trying that). I've also had two pedicures in the past two weeks because my friends and some of DH's colleagues swear by this. No baby yet.
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| Posted 2/15/11 9:53 AM |
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have2hide
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
Found this online & it gives an explanation as to why some of the suggestions might work & why some won't.
Link
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| Posted 2/15/11 10:21 AM |
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springsandra
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Re: Give me all your laboring inducing wives tales!
The yoga ball worked for me. Did rotations and light bouncing for 2 hours one night and went into labor the next day. Of course it was 2 days before my due date, so it may have been a coincidence. I had already been 3 cm and 75% for almost a week at that point.
Those measurements are notoriously wrong, btw. Don't worry!!! Good luck!!!
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