Raspberry leaf tea

[ALew15]

Any feedback of using raspberry leaf tea in the lead up to birth? I'll be 36 weeks on Monday.
Any branded tea bags you'd recommend?
Thanks

Meh, I wouldn't say it does much. It's meant to help tone your uterus. I had a few cups here and there but don't feel like it was the pinnacle part to my labour.

Any will do!

I drank the tea by the bucket load before DS1. It made no difference. 32 hours in labour if you like fruit tea, which I do, the heath and heather ones are lovely.
I took the capsules before DC2, 6 hours of labour... They're definitely stronger.
If you want any hope of it being effective, go for the capsules. If you want a nice fruit tea, get the bags :)

I got a box of it from Amazon, think it was called mama something. I chugged the whole box of bags from weeks 38 to delivering at 39+3. No idea if it helped but my labour and delivery was quicker than I expected for my first. Worth a shot in my opinion but I think you have to drink quite a lot. Might be worth waiting a bit then going for 3-4 cups a day?

I’ve got the HotTea mama teas. Nice enough to replace my morning coffee which now makes me want to heave. Not expecting miracles from it to be honest, will be grateful for a shorter second stage of labour but last labour was only 3 hours start to finish anyway so not sure what I’m worrying about! X

My mum has swarm by this for when she had me. Said her labour was much easier because of it.

Thanks everyone. I think I will give it a go, no harm! My SIL said she had the Hotmama tea bags so maybe I'll get those. I did hear that you need to drink approx 3-4 cups a day for it to be effective, don't know if I'll manage that with my bladder 😂😂

I took tablets, first baby, labour under 2 hours, pushing a few mins, no stitches, walking dog few hours later, don't know if anything to go with tablets but would definitely took them again if wanted another baby

I took the tablets with both of mine. Both out like bullets from guns. Second was 1.5 hours despite being 9lb 9 and with shoulder dystocia. I do like efficiency!

I drank loads of whatever was available at Tesco. My first Labour went really smoothly, I was at home until 10 cm dilated and didn’t need pain killers, just took a couple of hours. No idea what caused that but I did drink several cups of raspberry leaf tea a day.

I’m laughing at the tales of ‘I used tea with first baby and capsules with 2nd and 2nd was so much quicker!’. 2nd babies are known to be quicker and easier!

It didn't do a thing for me and I drank gallons of the horrible stuff.

These natural remedies... I've tried RL tablets, primrose oil, dates and decided baby will come when he does. The only thing I'm now doing is using the aniball, which I feel built my confidence and gives the perineum a good stretch, hopefully to prevent tearing. This is my 2nd pregnancy, first time round, I hadn't done any of those things, including aniball, and it was about about a 6 hour labour. Although I did have a 2nd degree tear

I didn't have raspberry leaf tea but I had dates. Around 6-7 dates each day from 36 weeks and my labour was very short especially the first stage...