Has anyone drank castor oil to induce labor and did it work?
I have family and friends who swear by it. My doctor told me that it wouldn’t work if your body wasn’t already ready to be in labor though. I took it at 38 weeks and got nothing, and again at 38 1/2 weeks and got nothing. I didn’t even get cramping or gas or diariah or anything. But, like 24 hours after taking it, I went into labor, and 8 hours later I had my beautiful baby girl. That whole week I was bouncing on my yoga ball (birthing ball), drank the caster oil, went jogging (a lot of jogging), my exercise bike… I guess I was just really active and boom, I was in labor. My cousin swears by pineapple, she said she ate a whole pineapple in one sitting and had her baby that night. Good luck to you!
i did, i was due on december 25 and i took castor oil the next day… then a week went by and i took it again… did not work… he was two weeks late but my mother-in-law took it when her baby was a month late and it worked the next day… everyones body reacts different than another…. and the baby will come when he/she is ready!!!
There’s all kinds of ways that are said to jump start labor and yes, Castor oil is said to be one of them. Hot raspberry flavored tea and one of those chocolate Ex Lax worked for me. Stripping the membranes (as one other answer said) and/or sex can also be effective along with several others. The problem is, if you’re cervix is not ready to dilate then none of them will work and some of them (such as some of the vitamin supplements) aren’t always safe. So if you’re going to try a method be safe about it and I wouldn’t do the nasty Castor oil if I were you cause if you do and nothing comes from it then you drank that nasty stuff for nothing.
My mum did and it worked for her. I also had a client at work who did and it worked for her. I didn’t when I was pregnant I believe it can cause dehydration and that is the last thing you or the baby need during labour. I copied to the below section from another site: – The effectiveness of castor oil to encourage the onset of labor is questionable. It is generally considered safe, although there are some who believe that it increases the risk of meconium passage in the infant. It has not been well studied, which is surprising considering how long this old remedy has been in use. It seems to be relatively safe, although there is concern that if it does in fact work to induce labor, does it carry the risks of other methods of induction? (These risks include fetal distress from too strong contractions, increased risk of uterine rupture especially in a scarred uterus, unintentional prematurity of the baby, increased pain level for the mom, and a few other risks). Are the benefits such tha
