to give DH a blow job and swallow..............

[Bleurghhhh]

to try and bring on labour. I have read that taking semen orally rather than having sex is more effective as the prostogladin (have no idea how to spell that) is better absorbed. I normally don't mind the blowing (DH is very sexy) but have NEVER been able to swallow although in these circumstances I am desperate . Any tips on how to stop me gagging and running to the bathroom to spit?? Have not told DH I am planning this as yet! Have namechanged as do not want to be forever associated with this thread .

I am 38 weeks pregnant with DC4 and have absolutely had enough!!!!! I am being horrid to everyone and can hardly lift my huge ass of the sofa . This has been a terrible pregnancy from start to finish and dealing with a newborn will be a breeze compared to what it's been like.

I thought something was starting last night as was having pressure down below and painful BH but nothing now. I know baby will come when ready but it's worth a try right?

Baby is big and healthy. AIBU to think desperate times mean desperate measures?!!

I'm struggling to care.

FFS nothing is ever as bad as that. Don't do it. Play football instead - that made my DC4 finally decide to make an appearance.

YANBU. Desperate times and all that. Just swallow quickly and have a drink handy to take the taste away. Good luck.

Ermm, well I found normal sex started my labour but if you think this works better give it a go.

If you don't like swallowing try and have it as far back as you can when he comes and swallow straight away without thinking and have a drink on stand by.

read where?

Something written by your husband and planted in the house?

I don't see how it can be true, tbh. I really think the prostaglandin has to be applied directly to the cervix.

Am not an expert though.

That sounds like I often swallow without wanting too, haha, thats not true, I don't.

I like it

I thought for that to work you had to be overdue, or due in a few days, as your cervix has to be ready?

Swallow a curry instead, much nicer.

It's the warmth that's so evil

(Why post then Avalance?? I can never understand)

I do feel for you in this heat. My labour came on (week early) after having sex. I think the chemical reaction in semen can work on the cervix so I wouldn't worry about the BJ. If you do want to go ahead with the BJ, have a tissue under your pillow and discreetly roll over and spit into it!

Other things you can try to start labour: curry, driving over speed bumps, walking and reflexology.
Good luck!

It's the warmth, combined with the slimy but sometimes oddly grainy texture that makes swallowing so repulsive.

Don't do it. A whole pineapple, followed by a 2 mile hike did it for me at 37 weeks

Hold your nose and down it goes!

what a snidey post AhLaVache

sorry Bleurghhh, tried everything with overdue dc3, sex, bj etc, nowt worked. Although did have a MASSIVE poo, a few hours before contractions started, and that seemed to kick things off. sorry tmi.

I always found that even if you can swallow it, the taste repeats on you for hours!!

Vile stuff.

If prostoglandins worked better orally, they wouldnt' give you a prostin pessary on induction in the hospital.

Your husband is making it up on order to get a BJ because he knows once the baby is here he's got BUCKLEYS

Yes AlCrowley, that is what I always found as well.

OP I recommend a bottle or can of something fizzy to help take the taste away afterwards. You can even combine the fizzy drink with the blow job to get it over with quicker make it more exciting for him

It's a shame actually the way the taste sticks because I quite like the feeling of having someone come in my mouth but the taste makes me gag and the fact it stays for ages is just too much, I can't bring myself to do it.

Your husband is making it up on order to get a BJ because he knows once the baby is here he's got BUCKLEYS

fact

It's supposed to be really good for you protein wise, so why has nature made it taste so boakinducing? maybe to make sure it goes to the right place?

Although actually to be fair I find if any of it gets in my mouth the taste sticks for ages, so if you usually spit, just make sure he's pretty far back in your mouth when he comes and it should be easy enough to swallow quickly and then grab a drink asap.

Or you could do what Michael McIntyre's wife apparently said which is "Can't you just wank in my tea?"

Although what other people are saying about the pessaries in hospital makes sense - listen to them! The other thing I can think which may be relevant is the oral contraceptive pill is a much higher dose than a mirena coil or nuva ring, both of which release hormones direct to source if that makes sense.

pineapple
raspberry leaf tea
scrubbing the floor
long walks
sex (vaginal )
curry

um

I think as well that the prostoglandins need to go on the cervix, I'm sure the stomach acid won't do them any favours. For really quick action maybe you should snort it

Having said all that
I tried all that (well apart from the floor scrubbing)
And was induced at 42 +2.

Good luck!

He could do it separately? And then perhaps use it as a mixer...pimms and spunk anyone? (it is supposed to go with anything)

My MW told me to take it orally too (so much for sisterhood).
I decided to swallow a load of evening primrose oil instead (and to put some of that near my cervix). Much more savory, full of prostoglandins and did the job.

I ate a whole pineapple in one sitting FGS.

I think all this stuff is made up to give people somethng to do to pass the time

Bloody fantastic thread OP

None of the old wives tales work. A baby comes when it is ready and you would want it no other way. For every woman that says something worked, there are a million more for whom it didn't. It's coincidence. Or I'd be recommending sitting on the sofa watching Kill Bill. Here's a bit of science for you regarding semen and labour...

"Does it work?
There's not much evidence that it does work. Of the small studies that have been carried out all but one (Tan et al 2006) suggest that sex neither helps to ripen the cervix nor to start labour earlier (Kavanagh et al 2001; Tan et al 2007; Schaffir 2006)."

It's generally believed that the concentration of prostaglandins isn't high enough. Just like you'd need to eat 8 fresh pineapples to absorb anything like the amount of enzyme you need to even start having an effect on your body.

And the oral ingestion thing is true. Prostaglandin from the semen is more efficiently absorbed through the gut and studies show that this is more likely to coincide with labour than trying to absorb it through more conventional methods. But it is still coincidental and instances where it happens are few and far between.

One of the ladies on my antenatal thread cut the top off Evening primrose capsules and applied them direct. Worked a treat AFAI Remember.

Jogging round the hospital car park did the trick for a friend of mine who was desperately trying to avoid an induction.

I had the induction. They don't make you take that orally!

I bet the OPs DH is giving you daggers plastic.