How to get true labor started at this point?
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 at
5:03 pm
I am 37 weeks and 1 day pregnant. I am now 3 cm dilated and I am continuing to have braxton hicks. I had to go to the hospital yesterday morning due to contractions that were 3 minutes apart, but after 2 hours my cervix didn’t dilate anymore. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get myself to go into true labor.
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I’m sorry, but no matter what anyone says, you cannot force labor to happen. It happens when your body is ready. If self-inductions were that easy, there would be no need for hospital inductions. Hang in there, I know it’s frustrating, we all go through it. Good luck!
You can’t –
There are 2 hormones that trigger labor – Oxytocin and Prostaglandin
You can’t force these hormones – they release when BABY is ready not when YOUR ready
I had sex and went walking up and down the stairs and then I waxed my husbands chest( dont reccomend the waxing..ahh!) lol but I would try having sex and walking. Don’t do anything too strenuous though
Sex, laxatives, warm bath in a Jacuzzii tub. The tub works so well that our hospital has now installed them in the labor hall and they accelerate labor quickly.