Starting operation: GET LABOR STARTED

NatalynAndTJsMOMNatalynAndTJsMOM
edited August 2011 in Labor
Ok, so I'm 38 weeks today and I'm suppose to be induced on the 6th. I really want to have a natural birth with NO medications what so ever. I don't even want the pitocin. This is my last pregnancy and my hubby won't let me have an at home birth or a water birth so this is all I have left. :-| I know I can deal with the pain because I did it with my daughter. I just want to have the experience of having my water break and going through contractions without being hooked up to machines. So right now, my labor cake is in the oven, I have some pineapples chilling in the fridge, I will start bouncing once I finish ironing my daughter school clothes for the week, and I have a plan to walk for the rest of the week. Does anyone have any more ideas to help me go into labor without medications? I'm open to everything but castor oil (my stomach can't take it).

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  • WilsomomWilsomom
    Pray...lol. Seriously, I've been really close to my docs wanting to induce me before & I'm like you. I would love home birth, but hubby isn't quite that brave...lol. Ask God to have mercy on you & let you have ur baby natural. :) Has always worked for me.
  • NatalynAndTJsMOMNatalynAndTJsMOM
    @Wilsomom I will add a couple extra prayers throughout the day and the week. Thank you!
  • survivormommie3survivormommie3
    why wont your husband "let" you have a water birth? that seems a little ridiculous and controlling to me.
  • jay_bradjay_brad
    I'm also wanting to have my son all natural so if you find any ways that work for you let me know!! I've done everything!
  • fallen5fallen5
    Ladies please share ideas I want as natural of a birth as possible I'm 37 weeks so I want to start doing things now if I can to induce myself naturally. Hubby won't let me do water birth at home either :(
  • momof22bemomof22be
    I'm on my way to the mall right now!!! I'm going on a long walk
  • NatalynAndTJsMOMNatalynAndTJsMOM
    @survivormommie3 He is scared not to have the doctors and nurses around. He is scared something will happen if we are not at hospital. I told him that there were home births long before there were hospitals. I can't get him to change his mind, which is crazy because anything else I ask him for he gives me.

    @jaybrad I wil let you know.

    @fallen5 They are such sticks in the mud. LOL
  • Kimberly4411Kimberly4411
    Look up acupressure, try nipple stimulation, lots of sex, walk with one foot on the curb and the other on the street, have hubby help you do squats, I plan on doing all of these in about 3 weeks, o and its the semen and if you can orgasm, I plan on putting my legs up in the air and letting them inside sit for a.couple minutes lol... Good luck!!
  • WilsomomWilsomom
    I think it's our hubby's way of trying to protect us, even though they don't realize natural birth is actually safer than hospital.
    If any of you have netflix watch "The Business Of Giving Birth". It's REALLY good.
    Oh, and I've done the acupressure before & it really seems to work.
  • NatalynAndTJsMOMNatalynAndTJsMOM
    @Kimberly4411 I like how you think. LOL
  • survivormommie3survivormommie3
    oh ok. i was thinking about hospitals WITH water birthing available. but i understand
  • fallen5fallen5
    @natalynandtjsmom they sure are, I tried to convinced him by telling him we can get a mid wife but he says he doesn't trust them :( I wish they had a birthing tub at my hospital but they don't. If you have that option I would try it.
  • NatalynAndTJsMOMNatalynAndTJsMOM
    @fallen5 I'm giving birth at a military hospital so there is no chance of a birthing tub being there.

    @Wilsomom Thank you so much for telling me about that movie. I just finished watching it and I cried because that's the experience I so want to have. I think I will pass it on to my sister and a couple of my friends who are in the 1st trimesters of their pregnancies. Thank you again.
  • bbylucasMommabbylucasMomma
    I'm 38 weeks tomorrow :) and I want my baby naturally too we have pineapple too and my bfs aunt told me to drink apple juice and walk walk walk she said she drank aj and then walked a mile in 6 mins and she went into labor so I still want him to be a sept baby I have an appt the 1st so that day ill be doing everything I can to get him to come
  • Cait_SeptemberMommyCait_SeptemberMommy
    This is what I did the night I went into labor...I sat and lightly bounced on my exercise ball. Walked on a tredmil for 30 mins, sat on my ball some more. Had sex with my husband. Then I sat on my recliner, pushed the pressure point between your thumb and pointer finger, and bam! My water broke! Then I had my little girl 20 hours later :) I delivered at a military hospital, and it was a great experience for me.
  • mommyb3mommyb3
    Question- what are labor cakes?
  • WilsomomWilsomom
    @natalynandtjsmom I'm so glad you got to watch the movie! I've watched it like 5 times! :) Maybe ur hubby could watch it & see the truth lol.
  • NatalynAndTJsMOMNatalynAndTJsMOM
    @Wilsomom I tried to get him to watch it but then he decided to pull the guilty trip on me. He said everytime I read something online (mostly pregly) that I making him feel bad because he doesn't want what I want. I told him I already know that I can't have the kind of birth that I want because its too late in the game but it would not hurt him to watch. So now, I'm mad and when I get mad I clean so now the fridge is spotless (cleaned it last night) and today the rest of the house.
  • WilsomomWilsomom
    Awee... I'm sorry. Glad ur frig is spotless though...lol. Maybe just have it on playing one day when he gets home & don't even mention it. ;)
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