Raspberry leaf tea

From around 32 weeks, the evidence behind raspberry leaf tea isn’t very strong and is mostly anecdotal though: https://www.sarawickham.com/questions-and-answers/whats-the-evidence-for-raspberry-leaf-tea/

There is more evidence behind dates, which are thought to ripen your cervix and have been linked to shorter labours and less intervention. You’re supposed to eat six a day from around 32 weeks: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21280989/

It’s really normal to have a long first labour and with subsequent labours they are usually shorter.

With my first child, I drank raspberry leaf tea from 28 weeks. Started with one cup per day and then increased by a cup with each passing week. I soon got sick of drinking 4/5 cups of the tea and switched to the capsules.

My labour was just under 3hrs.

I think I got complacent with my second and didn’t bother with the tea. Labour was much longer and more challenging.

Haven’t tried dates on any of my pregnancies.

I’ve started back on my raspberry leaf tea and hoping for similar results.

I'm doing both dates and raspberry leaf tea, although the evidence is a bit neither there or there as Harriet Rose has mentioned, but I reckon it couldn't hurt 😅 the packaging on mine says to do it from 6 months onwards, so that's what I'm doing ☺️

Heya! My antenatal class told us from 32 weeks one cup a day and then increase to 2-3 at 36 weeks! HANDY TIP: someone told me to be careful which ones you buy as most of them aren’t 100% raspberry leaf and contain like 60% peppermint so be careful of which one you get! Xx

Get the raspberry leaf tablets! NOT tea - they’re much stronger and my sister swears by them for all 3 of her labours

where can you get the tablets from do you know? Or am I being stupid haha xx