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!

Then this thread is not for you, is it? You've made your point, everyone's read it. No need to keep repeating the same thing over and over.

My "last meal" has been at the same restaurant prior to the birth of both of mine so, eating at that restaurant 😂

Nothing works - if it did, it's a coincidence. And we'd be told to avoid doing it until 40 weeks.

Go somewhere really inconvenient for your waters to break.

Or do something that makes you so utterly exhausted that you couldn't possibly be arsed birthing a human after it.

Worked for me

I tried everything in the book. First come at 42+3 and second at 41. Deep down I knew it wouldn’t work but eating dates and pineapple, drinking the raspberry leaf tea and bouncing on the ball etc. kept me distracted and give a sense of control during a miserable time. Hope you get your baby soon.

Can do whatever I want thanks...

i went on a swing! no sign of labour beforehand, DS born 4 hours later

I gave birth 9 weeks ago and wanted to go into labour rather than my booked induction, 4 days before my induction I walked up and down stairs as much as I could, I also bathed in clary sage oil and rubbed on my bump, the next day I was in labour x

Castor oil! But shops won’t sell it to an obviously pregnant woman, will have to send someone else in to get it.
raspberry leaf tea another good one. Not raspberry tea, has to be raspberry leaf.
A curry apparently, also sex, but I don’t imagine many wanting sex that heavily pregnant!
I appreciate you have probably had the baby by now though 😁

3 options from me
Sex
Massages
Booking something stupidly expensive and non-refundable for tomorrow that you've always wanted to do (then its a win win either way)

FFS. Do you not think there is a reason why castor oil is not allowed to be sold to a pg woman? Educate yourself on the risks.

I have. Some say it is ok, some say there are risks.

My midwife said that having sex 5 times a day is basically the equivalent amount of prostaglandin contained in the pessary you get at induction

How to get labour started? Vote for them.

boom-tish

My midwife told me to ‘have a glass of wine on your due date to get things moving’ but I’m fairly sure I wasn’t meant to quote her on that…

I can't speak to any scientific or medical support on this BUT I am currently 37 weeks pregnant in north eastern China and during my first trimester I was warned by many an old lady not to eat pineapple as they say it can cause miscarriage. I know that to most westerners (myself included at first) these traditional Chinese medicine based beliefs seem pretty crazy, but I've lived here 8 years now and have learned that there is usually at least a slither of truth in what is said. So there might just be something in that .. or just a crazy load of coincidental miscarriage/labours starting in Chinese women after eating pineapple? Whatever the truth is, I've avoided pineapple for my entire pregnancy!

Couldn't think of anything worse than having sex whilst I was heavily pregnant, let alone 5 x a day 😂😂

There was no signs of labour before I done that, also the other people who done it also said it worked. It might not work for everyone but the people I know who done it went in to labour within 24 hours