DUers I NEED your voodoo and old wife's remedies now PLEASE

Mrs NW is 39 and 1/2 weeks preggers and the Dr is floating the term "C-Section" if she doesnt progress quickly.

Help!


Already on the list:

Sexual intercourse
Eggplant Parmesean
Pineapple

you can almost hear the eyeroll...as she goes for the Swifter?


(wanted: a DUer to recommend washing my truck to get things going)- oink

call it "nesting" I think. You begin to clean everything and straighten out drawers...don't think washing the truck is a part of that. :-)

Nah, that's the sort of chore that relaxes the male brain. Er, one of the male brains.

:hi:

A terrific Doctor will help your family through this...

A foot rub for Mom and a back rub for Daddy...



Tikki

nipple stimulation can help. Not sure if it's true, but probably fun to try anyway.

Way back when I was 41+ weeks along with my first, my mom told me to drink raspberry tea. But it had to be made from real raspberry leaves from a health food store or something, not the Lipton kind you can buy in a regular grocery store. Good luck.

went into labor

Read the list to the kid. Make sure the kid hears how inconvenient labor would be during each activity. Start putting the activities on the calendar. Make sure the kid hears the activities going onto the calendar

This is "applied negative psychology" -- the kid is going to inconvenience you, as much as possible, often deliberately, from the beginning and for years after. So you're just going to try to use this fact to your advantage from the get-go

:bounce:

:thumbsup:

Complete with baked potato and salad. As soon as you take to steak off the grill, she'll start going into labor. That what happened with our first!

right? I say fuck the all-you-can-eat salad and breadsticks!! they'll do you in anyway!

and you want a regular birth at 2am on a Sunday for religious reasons. He'll have to cancel his vacation, but hec, woman's bodies usually know the due date better ;)

:hi:

3-Finger Hoo-Doo Sign on it.
She's g-o-o-o-d.
Works almost every time.
Good luck.

Of COURSE he wasn't. The doctor miscalcualted the due date. What we did was kept extremely close tabs on him by ultrasound and stimulated little uterine contractions by...I kid you not...nipple tweaking during the ultrasound to see how he responded. He seemed just fine. I seemed just fine. He was born a little late for the adjusted due date but all was well.

You have to decide what's safest for your wife and baby so I'm not recommending anything. The doc could be overly aggressive but who besides him/her would know? Do you trust him/her?

Good luck. I expect that one way or the other you're gonna be a dad. Congratulations!

Worked for me!

Airplane trip! The lowering in altitude works wonders.

I was a bit overdue for my first and tried this...

It didn't work. My neighbor was scandalized as she leaned over the back fence: "You'll go into labor doing that!" I replied, "I sure hope so!"

My daughter arrived 2 weeks to the day after her due date...we were both fine!


Don't let that aggressive doctor pressure your wife into a probably unnecessary C-section.

And good luck!

Babies normally arrive when they are good and ready!

daughter - twice.

nipple stimulation (produces natural pitocin) and long walks... but these only work if the baby is ready. Don't give in easily to the doctor's pressure...

...your on track. Sexual intercourse with a little nipple stimulation, a cup of tea, almost a regular Saturday night...

a walk and on it goes, really, my best and good health.


Mark



Sexual intercourse - This works in two ways to induce labor. First, female orgasm can bring on contractions. Second, semen contains prostaglandins. Prostaglandins work to help ripe and soften the cervix.

Nipple stimulation - Stimulating the nipples triggers the production of natural oxytocin. Oxytocin contracts the uterus.

Accupressure - Accupressure may be helpful in inducing labor. Some pressure points you can try are the roof of your mouth, the webbing of your fingers between your pointer finger and thumb, and above the ankle about four fingerspaces above is a pressure point.

Stripping the membranes - This can only be done by a health care provider. Your doctor or midwife will separate the bag of waters from your cervix and this is thought to help encourage labor to start.

Raspberry Leaf Tea - Raspberry leaf tea is not actually known for its labor inducing properties, but it is believed to be helpful in toning the uterus and helping with labor.

Cinnamon stick tea - Take cinnamon sticks and boil them into a tea and drink. It actually tastes good so even if it doesn't bring on labor it may help you to relax.

Evening primrose oil - Evening primrose oil comes in small capsules similar to vitamin E. It is believed to help soften and ripen the cervix.

Walking - Walking may help to get baby to drop into proper position.

Visualization/relaxation - Relaxation can help with labor induction. Try doing relaxation exercisers. They are also good practice for when labor actually begins.

Pineapple, cumin tea, eggplant parmesan, and spicy foods - are another thing you can try.

and a bouncy road...

My wife was in false labor for two days with our first daughter. The midwife threatened to have her admitted to the hospital so they could induce labor if she didn't start soon. I had a 1980 Aspen with vinyl seats and leaf springs and I took her on a ride down Purgatory Rd., which at the time lived up to its name. She was in full labor by the time we got home.

Have the sex first. :evilgrin:

worked for me both times (The Fifth Element and Sin City, to be precise)!

Aside from the advice above, I'd also heard that real black licorice would help induce labor.

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