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Can anyone tell me what a contraction is suppose to feel like? i can see them on my monitors and y mid wife don't like them but I can't feel them.... is there something wrong with me?///// Also what are the signs my water will break soon i have pa__sing out sprees and I sweat alot even when it's cold...

I'd love to tell you what it feel's like but i don't know either. I would like to know also. I have been half asleep when i have had pain's but i don't know if they are actually contactions.. I have the same symptoms you do with the sweating and what not but i don't know if that means anything. I hope somone can answer you!

First off, most women do not have their "water" break naturally to signal they are starting labor. Most women have to have it "broken" in the hospital. As for with your midwife, you need to discuss that with her..If you water doesn't break right away she will probably wait until later in active labor when your baby is ready to be born. As for contractions, it is very normal not to be able to feel them in early labor. Most of my patients can't feel them until they get further into more active labor. Most women just say that they feel very mild period-like cramps or even just an abdominal/uterine "tightening". Both are actual contractions...they are just mild and signify early labor. Hope this was of some help to you.

I am due on the 27th May and am so uncompfortable that i too am looking for natural induction. Last couple of days have had hot flushes/sweating when its not hot. Am going to try rasberry tea and pineapple today. Can't wait to have a decent night's sleep!!!

Ha.. If you get a decents night sleep i envy you! I can't sleep but very lightly so i can't wait to have deep sleep even if i am getting up every other hour.I was due the 9th and today i had two due dates.. so i get to be induced thursday morning.IO had to lie adn say my fiance was going out deep sea fishing for a couple weeks and we need the money and i don't want him to miss the birht of his baby And it worked .Good luck with the pineapple.. Nothing i tried worked but unfortinitially My mother Never went into labor not even after beign induced.. I pray that doesn't happen to me! Good luck ladies to those trying to get induced and those wo have new babies.!!!!

how meney babies can you have when you had a cereya?

My neighbor told me that her, as well as a friend of hers, both drank a bottle of castor oil and they both had their babies either that night or the next day. I'm 39+ weeks pregnant and I'm going to try this method as well. I'll keep you posted as to if it works for me or not.

Hi I read all of your posts today. I tried almost everything with my first child and NOTHING worked! Including oil. Just a quick note also that I have heard that if the oil does not work the first time it won't work for you. The whole point of it is to have you throw up or have the runs which gets your uterus contracting.I had never heard of eating pineapple. I am due this saturday the 28th. I ate a whole pineapple today and am going to try raspberry tea tonight. Also has anyone tried spleen 6? I saw a few posts on pressure points. This is a pressure point 3 fingerbreadths up on the inside of your leg from your ankle bone. It is very painful to push on but it does start contractions. So that combined with other things may work. Try looking it up on the net for a better idea about it. It is called spleen 6.

I'm 38 weeks and I just wanna get it over with!! I dunno what to try, I just keep praying a lot, i've experienced lots of pain and discomfort these last few weeks and I'll now resort to anything (except castor oil having read about it). Also, I think that you guys saying s_x is uncomfortable at this time need to try out a few new methods hehe

im 36 weeks and nothing is working for me. i have friends that have taken the castor oil and it all worked for them but i cant make myself drink it. my doc says that some of his patients that have taken it actually had there babies in the toilet because the cramping from the castor oil feels just like contractions, and they couldnt tell the difference. this is my 3rd child and im sticking to the nipple stimulation and walking. it worked for my second child!!!!!!!

I was dialted to 2 and 80 percent effaced on monday.. now it is friday...i went to a ma__sage therapist today and she did the pressure point thing on my ankles after my ma__sage and told me to go home and do it more later hopefully it works..also i ate a whole pineapple last night ( woah i was stuffed) and take raspberry leaf tablets.. i am very misrable and hope something works..s_x has done nothing and i walk my dog once in the day and once at night (up a hill) so i will post if the pressure point did anything later...??? hopefully i will have a baby soon...:)

I have with all four of mine tried everything for inducing naturally just to avoid medical induction....nothing worked. This is my 5th and I am due June 10. Believe it or not, I am really not very uncomfortable. Just want to see my baby. I want her to come out so we can play. Still I am trying everything I can to induce because of this ma__sive rash I have from head to toe. The itching is the most uncomfortable and they say it will go away after delivery. I think nipple stimulation does work....you have to be very persistant though...do it every three hours like clockwork. I know that it is giving me contractions that hurt more than braxton hicks. I think it will do that and continure to until my cervix is ready for dialation....then labor will start. Just a matter of patience. :-) and time, I just stopped working last week, and I have plenty of time on my hands now. Castor oil is definately not worth the risk.

I have reached the point of nohting naturally working.. Nor did pitocin at max... I don't think i am able to have this baby... I have not dialated at all I was on pitocin for 8 hours.. My mom never dialated after 3 days and my sister was a month late.. So things aren't looking good for me.. I tell you what going home after a near promise your tohave the baby is a heart wrenching expeirience..I hope natural inducion works for you ladies. And you amy think i am not ready I am past my due date and my time line can't be wrong because its about to say that i wasn't even pregnant when i found out i was pregnant..and i a found out by a doctor.. I am goign to go try the pressure point thing i hope somthing works.Don't get discouraged till you go through 8 hours of pitocin and strong contractions and NO DIALATION.. GOOD LUCK

i read all of the tips on here and I havent heard of any that are guarenteed to work yet, everyone seems to have a different opinion. Mine is that I'm guessing it depends on how far along you are and if your baby is ready to come out or not. I wish there was just one thing that could work for everybody but apparently not. I took castor oil a little over an hour ago. I was due yesterday and just cant wait any longer so I pray to god that it works safely cause its so gross. Nothing seems to be happening yet. Well good luck to you.

Nichole- Nothing is guarenteed to work because everybody's body is different. Pitocin is what doctors use to induce.Its the most promising induction and it didn't work at all for me. So you aren't goign to find a garenteed anything.

Hello everyone! Im about to be 38 weeks in 2 days. My body is so uncomfortable and I can't sleep at night. So I just drank 2 oz. of Castor Oil to help w/constipation, and to get this labor thing goin hopefully. It's not nasty tasting at all. It's just like you're drinking a tube of Lip Gloss lol. I mixed mine with Dr. Pepper. I'm kinda scared to drink the whole 4 oz. because i'm only 5'2 and I don't know how much of that stuff my lil body can handle, so im stickin w/just half for now. My Dr. said my cervix is really thin last week. I've tried having s_x for the past 3-4 nights but nothings helped. Speaking of s_x, i've been wanting s_x so bad lol. It's weird cause I didnt even want to have s_x in the beginning, but now that i'm about to have the baby I want it all the time. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that the 2 oz. does the work for me!!