How to Induce Labor?
It a fact that approximately 70% of all babies, he doesn’t seem in any hurry to come out. If your baby is less than a week overdue, then doctors will likely advise you to just hang tight. And because it is so normal and common for babies to be born past their due dates, this is good advice and there is usually no need to induce labor.
However, if you’re feeling uncomfortable and annoyingly anxious, and especially if you’re already into your 40+ week of pregnancy, then it might be good to look for information about how to induce labor.
Medical induction in usually done using Pitocin and Oxytocin administered as gel and via IV (intra venous) drips. Unfortunately this medical procedure severely restricts your freedom and ability to control your own labor. Additionally, medical induction commonly results in many other medical interventions, such as epidural (because of intense contraction pains) and a caesarian section (due to failure to induce labor or stalled labor). Also, to induce labor, doctors can purposely break a mother’s water.
However, all these options are often unpleasant and come with side effects, and some can even endanger the health of the baby. This is why when you’re considering how to induce labor, natural labor induction is recommended.
If you’re facing the risk of medical labor induction, here’s some natural ways to induce labor:
If you want to get things in motion, put yourself in motion. Walking helps your baby to descent better. This will cause the baby to press his head down on your cervix, and this can prompt labor or at the very least get your baby in the ideal position for labor. Any active, yet gentle, movement like this can help to induce labor.
One of the most famous ways to induce labor is to have intercourse. A couple who is eager to welcome their baby could have sex to speed up the process. Sex can induce labor because sex can make the woman to release a hormone called oxytocin. Oxytocin causes the uterus to contract. Furthermore, the man releases semen which softens her cervix. For women who find the idea of sex to be completely unappealing during a third trimester of pregnancy that they wish was already over, then nipple stimulation is another option, as it also increases the release of natural Oxytocin to induce labor.
