42 week pregnancy - advice!

morlandbanks

I'd forgotten - when I had my first, my neighbour had just had hers and said that drinking Raspberry Leaf Tea had helped bring on labour. She gave some to me. That day I drank 2 cups. That night I went into labour!! It was my due date, so it may just have been time, but I'd try it anyway, you never know!!

ps - this is NOT recommended to anyone in earlier pregnancy for exactly this reason, so for any preggies out there thinking 'that sounds yummy'...Don't touch it until you're due!!

Spendless

mishkanorman wrote:

, others here have voiced the same opinion.

I was one who said my son was born in the circs you described seeing on tv. My maternal grandmother is unable to deliver normally too but her only daughter (my mum)did have normal births. My sister we'll never know as her 1st pregnancy was twins that needed delivering by section at 33 weeks.
My own daughter is 3 my neice 5 if at some point in the future they say they would like home births with their first child, I personally wouldn't encourage them due to the family history we have.
If they have perfectly normal births with their 1st children and want home births with subsequent children I would support their decision.

My son was born at 2.30PM on a Saturday. I know that in hospital I had given birth to my son in less time than it would have taken an ambulance to battle thru town centre traffic to my house and back to hospital. Whether this longer time would have actually made any difference to my baby I don't know, but I was most certainly in distress by the time the MW had decided I needed an op.

We can only go by our own experiences, mine have been worst case scenario, so that is what I point out. Just like my first scan in my first pregnancy revealed the baby wouldn't live. For this reason i don't recommend people taking their older children with them when they have

Jay-Jay_4

mishka, I'm sorry that I made you angry.

Crispy Ambulance has already responded to your initial reply so I won't go through it all again


Jo4 I apologise that your thread has turned into a bit of a rant. These topics are so emotive and always seem to end up in a bit of a debate on the rights and wrongs of each method, combined with a few personal stories for good luck .... lets not even start on the breast or bottle discussion

Have you looked into Blue Cohosh or Evening Primrose as possible 'nudges' in the right direction. Have you tried bowel irritants, checked your cervix and stimulated your nipples? Sure they're still intervention for interventions sake but better than induction and much kinder to the body that prostin.

mishkanorman

Fair enough Jay-Jay, end of the matter, thankyou

My husband was over joyed about hearing sex starts labour, I could have thumped the midwife !!

I had raspberry leaf tea aswell ,
but I genuinely feel its a genetitic (sp?) thing , my nan had 6 kids all of which were induced, my aunts and mum had another 7 between them and not one was a natural birth. I have had two now and there was no way in the world either one of my boys was coming out, i tried everything !!

Has anyone here actually been able to go against the advice of the medics for induction or not, i begged to be induced early 2nd time round, I had put on over 6 stone and was huge with very severe back and hip pains but they wouldnt entertain even a day. ( I was very sure of my date as was testing weekly, otherwise i wouldnt have been so selfish ) They seemed to be very set about what they would do and when.


Mishka

essexhoney

morlandbanks wrote:

I'd forgotten - when I had my first, my neighbour had just had hers and said that drinking Raspberry Leaf Tea had helped bring on labour. She gave some to me. That day I drank 2 cups. That night I went into labour!! It was my due date, so it may just have been time, but I'd try it anyway, you never know!!

ps - this is NOT recommended to anyone in earlier pregnancy for exactly this reason, so for any preggies out there thinking 'that sounds yummy'...Don't touch it until you're due!!

There is no evidence medical or otheriwse to back up that this in anyway induces labour, it may have just been coincidence for you
It is reccommended from 35weeks onwards to help relax the uterus which they say makes the birth of the child easier

I am currently 37+2 and was advised to start taking it from 32 weeks to get the full effect from it as they believed she would arrive anytime from 35 weeks, though after a few funny moments including going into labour at 34 weeks and them stopping it i am still here and still hanging on and drinking 3 cups a day :rotfl:

Jo_R hoping your not about now due to being in labour But if not and a home birth is what you want as long as you and baby are healthy then go for it They cant make you do anything you dont want to do. Wishing you lots of luck and hope it happens naturally very soon xx

roversbabe

essexhoney wrote:

There is no evidence medical or otheriwse to back up that this in anyway induces labour, it may have just been coincidence for you
It is reccommended from 35weeks onwards to help relax the uterus which they say makes the birth of the child easier

I am currently 37+2 and was advised to start taking it from 32 weeks to get the full effect from it as they believed she would arrive anytime from 35 weeks, though after a few funny moments including going into labour at 34 weeks and them stopping it i am still here and still hanging on and drinking 3 cups a day :rotfl:

Jo_R hoping your not about now due to being in labour But if not and a home birth is what you want as long as you and baby are healthy then go for it They cant make you do anything you dont want to do. Wishing you lots of luck and hope it happens naturally very soon xx

I'm on the raspberry leaf tea too - have been drinking it daily since 36 weeks as I've been advised that this MAY make labour easier. Fingers crossed eh

Am now 38 + 5 and waiting for roversbaby to make his appearance.

Jo_R - good luck and I hope baby arrives naturally for you - good on you for insisting on a home birth. :T

Best wishes for everyone's pregnancies!

rb x

funky-footprints

You are entitled to believe hospital birth is safer. However, the evidence for it just isn't there.[/QUOTE]

articles such as this done back up your case however ...

Women who give birth at home may be putting their babies' lives in danger, the Government's health watchdog is set to warn.

The advice, from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, is the first official acknowledgement that domestic deliveries could be unsafe.

The guidance states: 'There may be a lower risk of perinatal mortality when care is delivered in a consultant-led unit.'

However, their choice should based on the knowledge of the risks associated with the different settings, it says.

These include an increased risk of perinatal mortality - death of the baby during or shortly after birth - if the child is born at a setting outside a traditional labour ward, or 'consultant-led unit'.


however ....

The document, which will be finalised early next year, says that women who give birth at home or in a birthing unit are more likely to have a natural delivery, without the use of forceps and pain-killing epidural injections. But while they may be happier out of a hospital setting, they are further away from the specialised care and equipment that would be on hand in a traditional labour ward.


do we have a new addition yet ? ? ?

patchwork_cat

It is a while since had my babies, but at the time the NCT were very against sweeps - is this still the case. Raspberry leaf tea didn't work for me, either.

mishkanorman

My first midwife couldnt bring herself to say the word 'sweep' the second couldnt seem to wait to get her hands up there !!!

Mishka

funky-footprints

mishkanorman wrote:

My first midwife couldnt bring herself to say the word 'sweep' the second couldnt seem to wait to get her hands up there !!!

Mishka

roffle .... i had the same midwife with number 1 & number 2 and she just kept advising lots and lots of rumpy pumpy ...only we were both well past that !!! I had 3 sweeps with number 2, the thought of a 4th sent me into labour of my own accord.