Which is better: resting & cake or walking & housework...

[CitizenOscar]

...for encouraging labour to start? Just idly wondering as I wait for things to get moving...

(please say cake )

Yeah I did the resting and cake thing for both my pregnancies and two labours were fine!Made a curry the night before the last one though...don't know if it was just coincidence!

Yeah I did the resting and cake thing for both my pregnancies and two labours were fine!Made a curry the night before the last one though...don't know if it was just coincidence!

well I have 3 children who all appear to gave vacated my uterus so I say cake all the way.

Go for the cake, you don't want to tire yourself out before labour!

Walk to the shop to get the cake. Rest sprawled on the sofa to eat cake. Sweep up crumbs whenever.

All bases covered.

Definitely cake Especially if it's your first, you might not get another chance for a reeeeeaaaallllly long time

Phew. Cake it is. Not my first just getting impatient!

Anyone else think "nesting" is a conspiracy to encourage women to do extra housework before they're busy with a newborn?

Yup, I didn't get any nesting instincts, just an irresistible urge to wallow on the sofa and eat crap

Good luck for the birth

I'm nearly 35 weeks and getting a strong urge for my DH to do lots of housework. Do you think that counts as nesting?

Good luck, OP. Go for the cake!

Both!

Resting and cake! I'm now overdue and had a mad cleaning spree and long walk yesterday. Still no baby but I was so sore last night DH practically had to winch me off the sofa up the stairs and into bed.

Louise - that sounds like my kind of nesting!

Might get DH to make muffins with DS this afternoon, then I can "test" them later, after a rest....

walking to the kitchen to get cake... pref cheesecake. Am now sending my DH to go buy me cheesecake. OP go with cake

Before reading the post I thought the title referred to recovery from childbirth! Had to have a little sit down...

NB, resting and cake are ace for recovering from birth too

Oh no violetta, there will be no post-birth housework on my part, I can assure you!

Not much rest available with an energetic two year old around but did manage a muffin (or two) today.

Very glad to see a consensus for cake. Sometimes I just see lots of people talking about scrubbing floors to bring on labour etc, and I just think that's not for me.