Walking to help induce labour

People say walking helps to induce labour naturally- how long or how far should you walk each day at this stage?

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Walk as much as u can I am in labour ward amd I've been walking in the whole hospital every 2 or 3 hour for half an hour and doing some squat and bouncing on the ball. I get contraction after I lie down

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Think as much as you can, your body will tell you when it’s too tired to continue! Just make sure you’re walking in a loop/ somewhere that if you do get tired you can quickly return to base from! I was going on hour-long walks from 37 weeks to try and help but now 39+2 and can’t walk for more than five minutes without being in pain or out of breath x

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