Labour and Birth

mine were both late, if she doesn’t feel like they’re gunna come yet, than they arn’t baked enough lol! or at least - baby doesn’t feel that!

I tred ALL the myths. sex (the sperm contains prostaglandins which can stmulate labour) but v small quantitys, probably not enough) pineapple vindaloo walking bumpy car ride stimulating nipples (releases the hormone oxytocin - used after labour to aid contractions) some of my patients even tried swimming, bike riding (although this is ill advised if your mum hasn’t riden her bike at all throughout her pregnancy) cod liver opil (although more likely to give er bad guts!) ummm, had one very naughty mum who took the labour starting becuase she had one gin and tonic (this I would absolutly not recomend - since drinking in pregnancy is very harmful to baby, see ;AFS) just pointing out that there are lots of myths, few rarely work, and if they do, it normaly co-incides with some other sign like a ‘show’…

just focus on mum, make her life easy and help her relax, never know, the relaxng might do it lol! congratulations on pending baby in house… rather than trying to help you mum get baby out, pamper her, it won’t be long till she has the baby and she’ll ave little pampering, or attention (people tend to focus on new baby v annoying!) so just chill with your mum, make her last few days of peace and quet really enjoyable…help her make sure she has everything packed…

in my experance, babys come when they want to..