Helping to Progress Labour Either you are past your due date or you get to hospital and everything
slows up. What can you do to help things along?
- Walk, Walk and Walk some more.
Walking helps stimulate the
pelvic area and will help to initiate labour if your are overdue.
- Drink Rasberry Leaf Tea. Take this up to 2 months prior to
your date as it helps soften the cervix and condition the Uterus.
- Make love. Semen contains prostaglandin which
stimulate the cervix to open up.
- Practice Yoga during pregnancy.
This will make sure that the
pelvic floor and thigh muscles are stretched and flexible.
- Gravity.
If your labour isn’t progressing get up and move
around. Try the squatting exercises or use the birth ball.
- Dim
the lights. This helps to create a relaxing mood and can remove
any inhibitions you are feeling.
- Get into water. Take a warm
bath with stimulating aromatherapy oils in the water. Be careful
what you use as some are contraindicated
in childbirth, and only use very small amounts. Clary sage is a
good one.
- Keep your companion by your side. This will help
to maintain your state of relaxation and confidence.
- Nipple
stimulation. This releases natural oxytocin and can help
labour progress.
- Herbal remedies. 4 drops of tincture of squaw
vine & raspberry
leaf top drink in warm water.
- Try Homeopathic treatments. Pulsatilla
6c to progress labour or Caullophyllum to start labour.
(If you are planning to use Homeopathy or therapeutic Herbs during
your pregnancy, we strongly recommend that you consult with a
professionally qualified therapist, as these treatments can have
significant influences
upon your body).
- Try eating hot spicy food. A curry is good.
Capsaicin the active ingredient in chilli peppers stimulate
the production of endorphins
so there is a double benefit.
- Acupuncture can be helpful at
speeding up or inducing Labour. Again always consult with a qualified
therapist.
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