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Lets get this baby out!!!!

  • 17-07-2009 11:10am
    #1
    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭


    Right, herself is due this weekend. She doesnt want to have to be induced. I need all the old wives tales about how to bring on labour.
    We went for a walk the other night, she was getting very bad pains so we had to stop and just go home(after about 5 minutes), im thinking about making a spicy curry for dinner tonight. Anything else?


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  • #2
    janbaby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭janbaby


    http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/labourandbirth/planningyourbabysbirth/naturalbringonlabour/

    Heres a list :p Good luck!


  • #3
    gowayouttadat
    Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭gowayouttadat


    Sex, sex and more sex... that's what I'm telling my bf anyway :D


  • #4
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    DO NOT TOUCH CASTOR OIL. No, just no... don't do it... ever... seriously... believe me on this one...

    It does bring on labour, well, it did for me anyway, but the cons of the birth far outweighed the pros of taking the castor oil.


  • #5
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,748 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    A really really hot curry.Worked on all of ours.


  • #6
    galwaygirleen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭galwaygirleen


    Yep sex is the way to go ! on my first we said we would try it and see what happens if it didnt work its an old wives tale.. later that night waters broke! was day before due date!! so some lovin is a needed !!

    Heard the castor oil is extreme so stay away from that!

    And after that i suppose plenty of walking to get babys head engaged.


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  • #7
    Anna88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Anna88


    My friend went out in her car and hunted down every speed bump she could find....flew over them, and an hour later was screaming

    "Stupid Speed Bumps...didn think it would actually work aaaaaarrgh"


  • #8
    janbaby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭janbaby


    What does castor oil do?


  • #9
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    janbaby wrote: »
    What does castor oil do?

    It gives you a bad case of diarrhea, which in turn contracts the uterus and breaks your waters. The concept being that once your waters break you go into labour. Unfortunately that's not that way it works.

    I had read up on it and decided to try it (was desperate) and hunted a bottle of it down. Took it at 9pm and after a sleepless night and three trips to the loo my waters broke at 6am the following morning. I made my way to the hospital and I wasn't in labour, so the midwife booked me in for an induction the next day. The induction ended in an emergency c section under general anesthetic after fetal distress.

    Unless you read up on it and are happy to take the risk (it works for some women...) then I wouldn't do it.


  • #10
    Aysha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Aysha


    genuinely, nipple stimulation is very effective, best of luck.


  • #11
    Spiderman80884
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭Spiderman80884


    Aysha wrote: »
    genuinely, nipple stimulation is very effective, best of luck.
    Nipple stimulation and sex? Not sure if I could handle that!!! :D


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  • #12
    phaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭phaze


    Aysha wrote: »
    genuinely, nipple stimulation is very effective, best of luck.

    Was only reading about this yerday in What to Expect When You're Expecting.Apparently you need to stimulate the nipples for a few HOURS every day and it can lead to longer, more painful conctractions. She advises anyone to think 4 times (twice for each nipple) before trying it!

    Walking or making love seem to be the two better options out there. Good luck!


  • #13
    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    Still waiting :(
    She'll be induced next Tuesday unless the baby starts to get a move on.


  • #14
    ~me~
    Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭~me~


    haha, by the end of the thirteen overdue days before my one was born we had tried spicy food, sex, bouncing on birthing ball, more sex, walking.. everything and the day before i was to be induced i went into labour! good luck!


  • #15
    janbaby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭janbaby


    Did anything work, did your partner have her baby? :)


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