Ways to get labour started?!

[Suziek12]

Hi everyone, I’m 40+1 today and been trying all the usual ways people say to get labour going but nothing has worked so far, I was just wondering what worked for other people or if nothing works and they’re just all myths?! 😂 Thank you!

Well, they're all unprovable surely? As you'd have no idea of when baby would have come without "intervention"
Theres nothing to be done, unless you induce!

Honestly.. baby will come when they are ready!

If anything actually worked nobody would go overdue.

Drinking Pineapple Juice works.

How?

It's to do with something in it which causes the cervix to soften and dilate. It sounds like a load of rubbish but I drank some thinking it wouldn't do anything and it was fine and my child was born a week early, contractions started that day. I blame that because there was NO sign of labour before I drank that Pineapple juice.

Watch a funny programme - laughter brought on labour for me.

Walking up stairs sideways worked for me and everyone I know, I was 2 days overdue and a friend told me to walk up stairs sideways and I went in to labour that night at 6:30pm

Having sex gets things moving a lot of the time

How?

How did you know that worked? Like ... Had you not done it, who's to say baby wouldn't have come that evening anyway?

Did it ... ? Or was it coincidence?

There was NO sign of labour before I went to bed ... But there it was when I woke up at 10pm.

Soz going to bed brings on labour... obviously....

Soz clearly OP the way to bring on labour is ... Watch a funny film whilst drinking pineapple juice and then walk upstairs sideways and then have sex ...

I’ll throw mine into the mix…. Play a wind or brass instrument really loudly for a few hours using your diaphragm so essestially pushing baby out from the top!

The thing is that you can never tell if it would have happened anyway. But the things that seemed to work for me were:
DC1 - a sweep and a curry
DC2 - sex
DC3 arrived early to my surprise!

Sorry nothing worked for me and i went to 42 weeks. My friend claimed a really long walk helped her.

The pineapple juice thing is a myth. You’d have to drink gallons of the stuff.

You want to keep your oxytocin levels up, it's oxytocin that starts labour, Watch happy films, try and keep calm and in a happy mental state.

Nipple stimulation can help too, that's why midwives only suggest collecting colostrum from 37 weeks

You want to keep baby's head pressing down on your cervix and gravity helps that so I sat on my ball all evening rather than lying back with my feet up on the sofa

No one thing is going to start labour but some things do have a small chance of bringing it forward, I did as many as I could and he was born a couple of hours into his due date. Of course he might just have been ready to come but i felt it gave me a little control over a situation where you can feel there's none!

You can do that whilst walking up the stairs sideways...

Oh for goodness sake, I said it was daft. I think it's something that worked for me but I obviously can't prove it, I'm not saying it's medically proven. Why does someone always have to be snarky and miserable about something light hearted 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

What's your magic suggestion then? Sarky Sandra.

No suggestions... because baby comes when baby comes 🤷‍♀️

Do we all GENUINELY believe that if we walked sideways up stairs we can induce labour? Seriously? We could all decide when labour begins...?

How odd that's not in any kind of information leaflet 🤔🤔

My midwife suggested holding a newborn and sniffing it! I was 42 weeks and really wanted to avoid an induction.

I tried: sex, nipple stimulation, kerb walking, yoga ball, pineapple, dates, raspberry leaf tea, curry.

Baby was born via unplanned c section after unsuccessful induction at 41+5.

There's no harm in trying but definitely don't knock yourself out or do anything you really hate.

Start an important project you couldn't possibly complete with a newborn. Sods law.

I went into labour the first night my ds (then 3) slept through the night for the first time ever at 40+6. Couldn't believe she woke me up at 5am when I could have still been sleeping!