Orgasm triggering labour

[VikingLady]

This is something a midwife mentioned in passing during an antenatal class. Is it true? Is this why sex is often recommended for kick starting labour? I'd thought it was t=for the hormones in the... ahem.... "goo" he produces. So it needs to be good sex, then?

Would love to know!

Not sure about orgasms kick starting things (but it can't hurt, eh?!) but the "goo" thing definitely works. As I like to tell my DW: "I put them in and I got them out!"

Both our DS's were late - but both labours were triggered by using the "method which got them in there"!

Its bollocks, the only way a baby will come is when its ready. I tried the following:
Pineapple
Sex
Orgasms
Nipple Tweaking
Curry
Long walks
Sitting on a ball for days
Prayinf to St. Jude (i was desparate).

I was still induced with both ds's. And ds2 still refused to be moved after 4 days of induction and breaking of waters!

'Prayinf to St. Jude'

What the hell do you think I can do about it?!?!?!?!

Made me laugh! (my name, obviously!)

Orgasm = oxytocin = uterine contraction

I went into labour 3 weeks early with dd2 after a nice sesh one morning.

Think I was contracting from later on in the day (although didn't realise 'cos I wasn't expecting it and I don't really feel contractions!)

She was born at 2'ish the next morning.

If you're literally ready to go anyway then orgasm can provide that final trigger. I was two weeks early with ds1 and had been having latent contractions for nearly two days (I thought they were braxton hicks ) and it was valentines night and, well... 6 hrs later there he was!

mosschops30 my mum lit a candle to the Virgin Mary yesterday... there was no St. Jude at the cathedral. I wonder if that will work instead? :o

I like the idea of praying to St Jude!

I'll tell DH to start gearing himself up, just in case...

Just checked who St Jude is (didn't know, different country different saint name), do you really think that a patron saint for desperate and lost causes is necessary for cases like these? I think I'll stick with the Virgin Mary, after all I'm just 40+3 :o