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To ask how you got your overdue baby out?

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Forevertired19 · 01/04/2018 13:09

Posting mainly for traffic.

It's my second and I'm really unsure if he's back to back with me at the moment. I'm having just waves of pain for the past two days but it's in my lower back and it's agony. But I have been suffering with sciatica this pregnancy 🤔 so it could be that.

Hes 3 days overdue now and I can feel him ready to come just nothings happening and I'm in so much pain. I'm worried about being induced etc as I've not heard many pleasant stories about it.
What did you do to help ease on an overdue baby? He's a big boy and at 39w the midwife said he was measuring 41 Confused my dd came a day overdue and I always thought the second was always early :(

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BrickInTheWall · 01/04/2018 13:38

If you think baby is back to back get on your hands and knees a lot!!
Also look at spinning babies.com if you think baby is quite low down.
Won't start labour but will get baby in the best position for birth and may ease your back pain.
I really think there is no way to guarantee labour starting.. everyone can tell you how they did this and that and went in to labour but then there will be 10 other people that did the same thing and didn't go into labour. As hard as it is try to relax, baby comes when it's ready! FlowersCakeBrew

goose1964 · 01/04/2018 13:38

Dynamite, aka inducement before DD and DS2 made his own stealthy appearance 10 days late.

stubbornstains · 01/04/2018 13:41

I should add, OP, both inductions were pretty straightforward, and absolutely fine once I'd had All the Drugs, but both involved cooling my heels for 2-3 days in the maternity ward beforehand. Take a good book.

Bluelady · 01/04/2018 13:41

A good old dose of castor oil works really well if you can face it.

geekone · 01/04/2018 13:42

We walked to the Indian had a curry had sex when we got home and he came a week early

Calvinlookingforhobbs · 01/04/2018 13:43

REFLEXOLOGY

Amber0685 · 01/04/2018 13:49

My mum jumped off a chair with my sister! It worked.

PathOfLeastResitance · 01/04/2018 13:49

I was two weeks over due. I tried all the remedies many times. They broke my waters, I went for a walk, 3 hours later and I had a new baby.

Yogafailure · 01/04/2018 13:52

Reflexology! Of course last time I said this some sarky twat poster said "well maybe it was just your time since you were two weeks over"

However, I still say the thing that got dc3 out before they really panicked was reflexology

Minniemountain · 01/04/2018 14:00

DS was induced. Pessary 3pm Saturday, woke up with contractions 4am Sunday. He was born at 11.20 pm on the Sunday. The induction itself was ok. It was the massive head and knot in his cord which made it take that long.

KurriKurri · 01/04/2018 14:01

DD was 14 days overdue. I was going to bed and had one huge contraction, at 1 am, had bath, phoned for an ambulance, ambulance man thought she might arrive in the ambulance as I was contracting pretty vigorously by then. Arrived at hospital about 3 am quick exam and midwife said 'you can push any time you like' she was born just after 4 am with a couple of pushes, a couple of stitches. 7lb 15 oz - she was warmed up in an incubator for a few hours then I was back home that evening.

I think because she was so overdue, she was almost out already - I'd certainly been walking around as if I'd laid a football for about a week beforehand !

Good luck - hope yours pops out just as easily Smile Flowers

firsttimebabybirther · 01/04/2018 14:03

DS was 14 days late (now 3 weeks old) I tried just about everything there is to try!

I was really scared about trying clary sage but it seemed to do the trick , before I went to bed my OH mixed clary sage with baby oil and massaged my bump with it , I went to bed for about an hour then used a damp flannel to wipe the majority of it off went to sleep and woke up in labour at around 8am , 24 hours later he was born Grin

All the best Thanks

JaniceBattersby · 01/04/2018 14:06

Walking has worked with three mymoberdue babies. I know walking is difficult at this stage,of pregnancy but you just have to walk and walk and walk until you are exhausted. Then when you get home, get down and clean the floor with a rag. I think it helps open the pelvis and, well, gravity. Obviously that’s not medical evidence but it worked for me on three occasions.

The fourth baby came three days early because I was in bed, reached for my phone, fell on my stomach and broke my own waters. Don’t recommend that one!

thelionthewitchandthebookcase · 01/04/2018 14:12

Not recommended or easy for some but I gave myself a sweepBlushand I rubbed evening primrose oil on and around my cervix (don't laugh)
The baby slid out the next day

MySockIsWetAgain · 01/04/2018 14:13

I read that it's all old wive's tales - sex, curry, walks... The only thing scientifically proven to help is nipple stimulation, via releasing oxytocin, and that only helps a bit.

But low back pain does sound like a start - good luck!

YouCantGetHereFromThere · 01/04/2018 14:20

The thing that really helped me was accepting that they'd come when they were ready, and that if I just waited then my labour was likely to be easier.

PurpleTraitor · 01/04/2018 14:21

Waited two more weeks.

It’s not meant as a sarcastic comment in any way it is purely the only thing that did work for me.

notquiteruralbliss · 01/04/2018 14:25

Waited til she was ready - 31 days 'late'

deptfordgirl · 01/04/2018 14:31

I just had a baby at 41 weeks. Had a sweep 2 days before she came which seemed to work for us as I was already dilated and also lost the plug at that point. Can't the midwives tell you if your baby is back to back?

lubeybooby · 01/04/2018 14:34

one too many raspberry leaf capsules, a mile walk, fitting in carpets myself after lugging the roll ends upstairs, curry, a hot bath and sex. I did all those on the same day, day before I gave birth. Waters went 4 hours after the sex.

Bearfrills · 01/04/2018 14:43

DC3 was 8 days overdue so I had an elective caesarean and that shifted him Grin

Aside from the methods the hospital use, there isn't much that will moves baby that's not ready and virtually all of the old wives tales can be busted.

Please don't use castor oil as a way to start labour. All it will do is make you shit epic amounts of diarrhoea and, if it did somehow work, do you really want to have contractions at the same time as a case of liquid arse? It also runs the risk of making you dehydrated which drops your BP and can put your baby into distress which can have all sort of unpleasant side effects. When I was pregnant with DC1 my consultant specifically warned me against castor oil for these reasons.

YesitsJacqueline · 01/04/2018 14:46

Laxatives

CookPassBabtridge · 01/04/2018 14:47

A long, leisurely waddle around Ikea!

thismeansnothing · 01/04/2018 14:47

Nothing worked for me. Had three failed sweeps that were just agony because they couldn't do them for whatever the reason was. I gave up and I was booked in for induction at 42+3 . Morning of the appointment I went into labour naturally

EdmundCleverClogs · 01/04/2018 14:48

My first was 10 days late, labour started the day after I scrubbed the kitchen floor on my hands and knees.

My second came a week early. My waters went on Christmas night and I swear it was a combination of cooking a large meal/being on my feet/too many sprouts. Either way, kitchen work always seems to do it!