Induce labor at home

Hello!! I am trying to induce labor at home. I’ve try sex… nothing or walking everyday nothing. Any other ideas? Is super hot outside but I am going to do some target walking. Also I try raspberry tea.

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What helps for me was walking on uneven grounds, weirdest thing but when I would walk around the park I would walk on top of stumps and the tree trunks on the floor wherever it was uneven and that really caused labor to come on faster instead of walking a regular flat walk LOL also lots of sex

Nipple stimulation worked for me, expressing colostrum put me into labor

Raspberry leaf tea 🍵
Sitting on a medicine ball
Castor oil

Don’t try castor oil or a spicy curry. All it does is give you diarrhoea and an upset stomach. There’s a very very small chance that having diarrhoea will stimulate your uterus to start contracting but it’s a very small chance and if it does work, you go into labour with diarrhoea, which is not great.

I try raspberry tea and it does help. In my case with castor oil I did asked the question at my app but she said that it can cause diarrhea. But raspberry tea I am drinking that every day even raspberry juice.

yeah I was told that. Is hard to get away from spicy food but I do my best lol.

If you’re used to it it’s probably ok! I think it’s just people who randomly have the spiciest curry they can find and it doesn’t agree with their stomach. You could also try things like reflexology, pregnancy massage, staying active and curb walking.

I’m going to keep doing curb walking every day. That’s what my midwife told me. Going to try to stay active because this baby needs come out lol.

When I was induced the midwife told my husband to rub behind my ankles to bring on contractions

Walking definitely keeps the baby in as your rocking them to sleep and their comfortable lol. I walked miles every day and I was 2 weeks late x

aaaaaaaaa interesting!!! I’m going to keep the picture . I am willing to try anything!

@Karla if someone else does it for you, if it doesn't work at least you get a foot rub out of it 🤣

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