How to get labor started

[Eggs4Sale]

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So THAT'S why gorillas don't mix with spider monkeys!!!

I didn't just call you a gorilla.

Or did I?

 

[tabsmonsters]

With my first, I went a week past my due date and I resorted to push mowing the lawn. That worked! With my second, I was rearranging the bedroom furniture and while I was moving the nightstand, my water broke. He was almost 3 weeks early and 7 lbs so I think that was a good thing! Good luck!

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

My speeder upper was that big bouncy exercise ball thing. I bounced on that forever becasue one...it sped up my contractions and 2 it made my contractions feel WAY better. It took only a couple hours once I got to the doctors office. This son was only 8 lbs but I also had a 10 lber...THAT is no fun! I feel for Nifty's wife who is so very tiny and had to deal with one of those!

 

[BorderKelpie]

Why are we always in such a hurry to induce labor? No one has ever been pregnant forever. I understand you can't wait to meet her, but give her time to get as big and strong as she needs to be. She still needs to absorb her yolk, wait, I'm confused..... You have to feed her....It's a scary world out here. Be patient, she will be more than worth it!
Now, push!

Best wishes for an uneventful labor and a healthy, happy new member to your family!

 

[StupidBird]

BorderKelpie, have you ever been pregnate?
summer pregnancy; barely working a/c, ordered to bed the whole time, went hiking to Anna Ruby Falls while two weeks over due and still nothing. Finally went into hospital for serious induction and he was just shy of 10lbs. Next one was induced two weeks early, also just shy of 10lbs. Its crazy. Wish I'd known about the bouncy ball; but did they have them 20 yrs ago? oops. shown' my age...

 

[mom'sfolly]

Remember 40 weeks is just an average; some come earlier, and some come later. My first one was born on this original due date, the ob/gyn had moved it up a week because of the baby's size, but I knew when I got pregnant so I was unsurprised. My second was over a week overdue, so 41 weeks.

Hang in there. They come on their own schedule, and if nothing is wrong, don't worry about it.

With my second one, born in Texas in August; I was ready for him to come out by early July. I have never been so hot in all my life. Walking to the end of the driveway would have me in a full sweat.

 

[shelleyd2008]

mom'sfolly :

Remember 40 weeks is just an average; some come earlier, and some come later. My first one was born on this original due date, the ob/gyn had moved it up a week because of the baby's size, but I knew when I got pregnant so I was unsurprised. My second was over a week overdue, so 41 weeks.

Hang in there. They come on their own schedule, and if nothing is wrong, don't worry about it.

With my second one, born in Texas in July; I was ready for him to come out by early July. I have never been so hot in all my life. Walking to the end of the driveway would have me in a full sweat.

I lived in IN with my first 2, and in FL with my 3rd. I have one in September (2nd), one in October (FL baby), and one in November (1st). I think the worst as far as being uncomfortable and seriously hot was my first, I was in an awful state! I don't know what the big deal was, except it was indian summer. But it wasn't any worse than my other two (temperature-wise), I just couldn't take it. And with the FL baby, I didn't even have air conditioning!​

 

[Eggs4Sale]

8 and a half months pregnant, monsoon thunderstorm, AC barely making the room livable. Then BAM, darkness. Lightning struck a power pole down the road. It felt like a sauna outside, within 2 minutes it felt like a sauna inside.

Three days later, the power was restored. Full-size freezer and full-size refrigerator full of full-sized stink.

The Red Cross put us in a motel on the second day. Went home to get clothes and necessaries. It's amazing how hot and smelly a house can get after just 18 hours of 130 plus heat. I'm sure it was hotter in the house.

This was God's way of telling me that the baby in my tummy was going to be a handful.

 

[babymakes6]

My first baby, we were going to try home-delivery with a midwife. I went 3 1/2 weeks PAST my due date before I had any contractions. I was in labor from 9:00 Sunday night until 2:15 Wednesday afternoon when she was finally born. We wanted to go to the hospital on Tuesday, but the midwife told us I was not dilated enough and they would only send me home. Tuesday night, she called a doula to come stay with me because "she and her assistant and my husband were exhausted and needed to get some sleep!" Wednesday morning at 6:30, when I was still only at 4 1/2 cm, we TOLD her we were going to the hospital. When Olivia was born, she weighed 7 lbs. 15 ozs and was 22" long. The doctor thought she probably had started to lose weight, because of being so far over due. She had an Apgar score of 2, and her cord was stained a dark olive because of meconium. She didn't breathe for a few minutes, and was blue with no muscle tone. The first 2 hours she was on oxygen. After she started recovering, the midwife told me "we had the same equipment and could have done the same thing for her at home." I wanted to

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BTW:We tried EVERYTHING to induce-it didn't work! My other 2 babies have been born at the hospital, with induction. My cervix doesn't dilate

Best wishes, I hope she comes soon for you!

 

[Hoosiermomma]

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I too say try red raspberry leaf tea.

You're sweet little baby will come when they are good and ready.