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Brunnette, I feel for you momma... I'm 37 weeks with my first also... and i am just uncomforable in my own body. Not to mention extremely cranky... my poor husband! I was just looking on ways to induce labor myself... someone help!

haha. MommaTAO, i was doing the exact same thing not 10 minutes ago ( searching for a way to induce labor myself). unfortunately i think i will just have to wait... XD

Brunette, I just read that eating pineapple helps to induce... thats not bad at all i might try it tomorrow!

I heard that stimulating your nipples is a sure way to bring on labor!!!!!!!

Also, they say spicy food brings labor on as well. I had NO signs of having baby early. I went to Taco Bell and 7 hours later my water broke!!! I had him 2 weeks early!!!!!

okay, i've researched this topic to death..here's what I found out pineapples--fresh, not canned, you need to eat about 7 to have an effect since there's only trace elements of bromelaine. black cohosh (500mg every hour) clary sage oil evening primrose oil (make little holes in tables with pin and insert as high as possible in v____a (will soften cervix) nipple stimulation (15 minutes alternating on each b___st--have to stimulate WHOLE nipple, like a baby sucking, if you start leaking colostrum you're doing it right, use hot towel on the b___st not being stimulated---after hour stop and rest for hour otherwise you'll overstimulate) s_x. orgasm will help induce, and raise pelvis afterwards so that s____n comes in contact with cervix. prostoglandins helps to ripen cervix. walking--helps baby move into right position and if in position baby iwll put pressure on cervix helping things move along...good luck ladies. have fun.

I'm due this Friday and so freakin miserable!! I've complained sine 30 weeks, gotten more miserable every single day. This is my first as well - and probably my last. :) I can't sleep, can't walk, can't do anything and whine whine whine. I'm being induced tomorrow thank goodness - If I wait any longer I will make the stay puff marshmallow look anorexic! I can't bend my toes or fingers or ankles - I am ready to yank this little baby out myself. If only I could reach around my big belly I would. I don't have any stretch marks yet - so that's the one area I've been lucky in. Nothing else though - I've gotten nearly every symptom you can get. I'm ready to try a hot bath and a gla__s of wine. A friend of mine is a doula and that's what she recommended I do. I'm about ready to try it. Spicy food didn't work, ankle ma__sage, walking, s_x - all for nothing. I've been 3cm dilated and 90% effaced for at least the last week and lost my mucous plug. Still nothing. I think it's too late to eat 7 pineapples - although it sounds yummy! Oh, the dr also stripped my membranes last week. So....I guess the baby comes when it wants to - at least for me. Good luck to the rest of you. I at least will get my body back tomorrow, granted the induction goes well. With my luck it won't work. :)

I'm due on Thursday the 7th and cannot take this anymore! I'm so ready to have this baby. IT's amazing how my att_tude towards labor has changed these past few days. I was scared before, and now, I don't even care anymore. I just want to have this baby so i can hold him and kiss him and have my body back! We moved to Florida from overseas a month ago and we shipped 4 cases of wine and they just got here TODAY!!! woooooooohoooo. Right on time too! If I don't have my baby in 8 days, I will be induced. So either way, I'll have my baby in a week. I'm just so anxious though! I ate about 3 pineapples and my mouth just doesn't feel right (tongue is really rough). I've been eating them for the past 3 days. I eat 1/2 at a time. I'm think it's too much to i've given up on that. We've tried s_x and a hot bath, and nothing. I've been walking a lot as well. We went to the beach yesterday and I could hardly even walk because of some pain I was experiencing in my lower back and abdomen.

hot bath and a wine is to make you relax...tension doesn't promote labour...but fefer I hope your induction goes well!!! almost there--7 pineapples is a lot--I mean A LOT--I can barely scarve down one at a sitting, I been eating one everyday for the last 3 days...mind you, my BH are getting more intense, especially at night---and the funny mouth taste carol--I GET THAT TOO! for me it's like a burning sensation in my mouth--probably from the bromelaine (since it's a poison, more mildly known as a laxative--ie. all laxatives are poison (that's why your body wants it OUT of your system-quickly).

patience, I've been there, it will be over soon

How can anyone eat 7 pineapples? Just a taste would hurt my stomach right now. I am pretty ready to have my baby, I can hardly eat anymore, I never had morning sickness, now I feel like I could throw up all the time. I guess it's time for more ginger tea. I have tried the s_x thing all that did was make me spot for a week, the nipple thing, I eat spicy food my baby just doesn't want to leave her cozy home.

just wondering if all the ladies could update--would love to hear what's going on now?

update for moi: I have gone on a pineapple-raspberry leave tea-s_x-walking-even castor oil binge----that was two days ago and I can report that NOTHING HAPPENED..grrrrr. Every night the BH start up and there'sbeen some night where they've been so painful I was SURE this is it. so much for "you'll just know!" comments. My DH does cervix checks, he says it's only 1 cm. grrr.

i feel your pain smileful, i tried the pineapple thing and all i got was a tongue like sandpaper :) mmm.. i never want to see another pineapple again!! I had the worst backpain last night just could not sleep, bh was going crazy i was soo excited and then i threw up and all was over.. i dont know what happened maybe i just over ate.... i dunno but i was so devastated that it was a false alarm. 1cm. at least thats something! :) i wouldnt have a clue. oooh i think im nesting too, its crazy, cleaned out the pantry, linen closet and rearranged the house yesterday, nursery has been changed around and so has my bedroom, i hope that its a sign that something will happen soon!! i just keep getting these huge bouts of energy, though i can certainly feel my back when its time to try to sleep! :)

ok, maybe i don't want to know but how can you do a cervix check smileful? I was told on Wed that i was 2cm dilated. I've been getting really bad shooting pains vertically through my...ahem...cookie, and am thinking its maybe due to further dilation. Have an appt next Wed but dont want to wait that long to find out. I am far too impatient :o) any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Brunette--we need an update, sounds like you've got tonnes of symptoms showing you're about to go into labour soon. I know what you mean about the sandpaper tongue--didn't think a pineapple could do that to you--it's like it's killing your taste buds or something. Vonzo, my hubby does them--he's pretty clueless, but we went online and did all the research we could. Most important thing is to find diagrams to know what he's trying to feel for. I tried doing them myself but with the bump in the way---it's pretty much physically impossible. Our main concern was introducing bacteria, but upon further though, and clean hands we figured during intercourse "things" go in there anyways...hope that helps. There's a site---australian birth site that has some neat diagrams. I'll see if I can find it for you and post. (;