Tried and tested 'make baby come' methods.

[VictorianSqualor]

I'm 33 weeks now, so not expecting it for a few more weeks, but am desperate to go into labout by 38weeks.
What did you do to help make labour start? and when can you start the whole nipple stim/birthing ball/pineapple etc from?

1)I think you have to eat truck loads of Pineapple for it to work!!

2)Cant be bothered with the sex....reckon that was a line men came up with

3)DH would literally have a heart attack if he walked in on me fiddling with my nipples - hence trying the next hour and half trying to increase his chances of point 2.

Point 2 will be used when I get really desperate!!! LOL

VS - have you tried nipple tweaking using a pump? it's meant to be better than doing it by hand.

Acupuncture. It works using pressure points that you can also work manually (but needles are better because they get right to the nerves that need stimulating):
Pressure point 1: Is the tender point just between where your thumb and forefinger meet. Hold them to make an L shape, and then apply pressure with the thumb and forefinger from the other hand.
2: About 4 of your fingers up from your ankle bone is another tender spot. Apply pressure with your thumb. Even better, use a plaster to stick a peppercorn to the point and then apply pressure with your finger.
3: In the top of your foot between the bones of you big and second toes.
4: There are four points in you sacrum. If you have a tens machine, these are pretty much where the instructions say to place it. When you have acupuncture, the therapist runs an electric current through the needles - you can get a similar effect by using your tens.
5: In the depression just along from your shoulder blade is a spot used in Shiatsu massage.
All this points feel very tender to touch, so have a poke around until you find them. When you have acupuncture, you don't feel the needles go in because they're so fine, but when the therapist hits the point they need to stimulate, it feels like a little electric shock. It's amazing. I felt my baby get very active during the therapy, which I had on the Monday night. I had my show the next morning, was in established labour that evening and dd was born (very quickly) in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

Tried lots of walking round the block, had tons o sex ;) but nthing, finally decided to go to tesco's and try raspberry tea and some pineapple. Was walking round tesco towards with said items in trolley when felt first contraction, they were every ten minutes and lasted about 20secs or so, needless to say i continud sopping and went home and ate the pineapple in between contractions!!

Antdamm - Tesco's worked for me to bring on contractions too, each time I walked in the place I would be contracting by the end of the second aisle!!!!

NA - Ok seriously for me with so much prelabour contractions it was the evening primrose oil capsules that started me off. Worked fantastically for softening the cervix. Also I think it might have helped with stopping me getting a tear too, as with two previous births got 2nd deg tear, with this one nothing.

There was a thread on here a while ago about a midwife recommending oral sex in this situation - very scientific argument too - but you have to swallow! ( sorry but you asked!)

Also had that experience in Tesco's (not the oral sex one obv - contractions). What on earth is going on there to hasten babies into the world I wonder?

I tried everything apart from castor oil to make DD2 appear as I was in agony from SPD and desperate - nothing worked she was 12 days late.

This time doing nothing instead of focusing on due date am focusing on end date i.e. 14 days after due date.

I had DS1 at 37 weeks. He was ready. What I put it down to is the previous couple of days I had -
been drinking raspberry leaf tincture, having lots of sex,
eating curry,
and walking lots.
Lots of wotsitmadoobery massage - perineum/perineal/perimanimineal....??

Did the trick

Sex, if already 'ripe' so to speak.

Midwife recommended it to avoid induction, 10 days earlier, and it worked a treat. in Labour less than 10 hours later!