Advice on Naturally Inducing Labour!

Why, if your consultant doesn’t think you need to induce early would you want too?
My whole pregnancy my daughter was measuring really big, I had extra scans and she was always a few cm ahead.

She was actually only 7lbs12oz even though they estimated she would be around 11lbs.

Everyone I know that’s had an induction (and also had a spontaneous labour) has said the induction was far worse of a labour.

There is acupuncture which obviously has to be done by someone who learned it.
And I also ate 6 dates per day. It's not really an induction per se, but a support. And yeah there is actually scientific date that it works. Some of the other methods like raspberry leaf tea do not have that scientific data that proof it's working; which I did drink anyway as I figured it doesn't hurt 😅

All I wanted was natural birth, more than anything. A complication arose (borderline low fluid) before my spontaneous labor started and I was given 24h to go into labor or get induced at the hospital. So I got a membrane sweep, did castor oil, nipple stimulation, we had sex, I had already been eating dates for weeks … got my contractions going that night but they were not effective until I was on a strong pitocin drip 30h later which was unbelievably, unbearably painful. My baby was not tolerating the strong contractions so ended up with a c section bc it was safest for baby

My 2 points are, if your body isn’t ready it will possibly not be a super positive experience … and in retrospect I was so caught up in how I wanted it to go, I didn’t leave space to listen to recommendations or go with the flow and was very traumatized by the whole sequence.

I wish you and your baby the best, however it happens ❤️

But the measures are just estimates lol… i think you should follow the advice given by your doctor …. Or get a second opinion from a different doctor i guess but best of wishes mama! I was induced at 37 due to IUGR baby (google it for more info if unaware) and induction is serious! They claimed he measured at 6pds but he was actually 4 when born and was in the nicu for a few weeks. The induction process was not good from my experience…. But to each is own

My advice would be wait until 37 weeks at least (coming from someone who had a normal size baby at 36+6 but was still treated as prem by some!!) ...and as others have said even the methods which people talk about aren't reliable. Having said that I did have a positive induction at 39 weeks with my 2nd (and i think that makes a difference).