How to Induce Labor Naturally?

To induce labor naturally you can try a long walk, eating spicy food or having sex. Other than that anything drastic can be dangerous to you and the baby.

"There are no proven non-medical ways for inducing labor naturally," says New York midwife Elizabeth Stein, CNM. The only safe and reliable methods for starting labor involve medications given at the hospital. Most other techniques are rumors, unlikely to help at best and potentially harmful.

Only a couple show any promise, and the jury is still out on those. Acupuncture might help bring on labor, but it's too soon to say. In parts of Asia, it has been used for centuries to jump-start labor.

The study included 56 women who were 39.5 to 41 weeks pregnant. (Forty weeks is full term.) Half of the women got three acupuncture sessions, while the other half did not. Seventy percent of the women who got acupuncture went into labor on their own, compared to 50% who received standard care.

The women who got acupuncture were also less likely to deliver by cesarean section -- 39% compared to 17%. "We had almost a 50% reduction in the C-section rate," says researcher Terry Harper, MD.

You should not try to induce labor on your own. To help it come sooner you can try a long walk, eating spicy food or having sex, but don't try anything drastic.

Another strategy that gets positive reviews from doctors and midwives is inducing labor the same way you started your pregnancy -- by having sex. "I tell my patients to do that all the time," Harper says. Although there's no proof sex can start labor, there is a good reason why it might.

Harper says sex releases prostaglandins, hormone-like substances that are like the medications used to induce labor. And it won't hurt to try! "I think sex is a great idea," Stein agrees.

In order to induce your own labor you could try some natural remedies. You could try having sex. Orgasms help the cervix to contract and bring about labor.

You could also try moving around or exercising. You can find more information here: pregnancy-info.net/labor_inducing_labor.....

I started frantically looking for ways to induce my labor at home. I knew that if I went much longer without delivering that the doctor would step in and induce me. Frankly, I just didn’t want to subject my unborn daughter to that trauma, so a natural induction approach was the only thing for me.

There’s certainly no shortage of ideas about how to induce your own labor. Not only did I find a whole bunch of ideas online but it seemed that every female friend and relative of mine had their own approach to solve the problem and get me into labor. This was one that my mom and a few other mature women suggested.

The idea was that I’d put some castor oil in a glass of juice and drink it.

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