What is the best way to induce labor naturally?
There are a number of ways to help get labour started, or once labour is started to keep it established. While I’m not medically trained, and what I say here is not meant to be construed as medical advice (always refer to a trained practitioner) I can speak about my personal experience inducing a baby that was 3 weeks post-date. My baby had been fully engaged (head completely in the pelvis in the ‘ready’ position for labour) from about 28 weeks, however rather than tucking her chin in (as babies nearly always do) she flexed her head back as if she were looking toward the place she’d be going. That is called “brow presentation” and our daughter was a ‘complete brow presentation’ (which persised through the entire delivery – she was born forehead and eyebrows first!). What this meant was that the dullest flattest part of her head was sitting on my cervix, not the ’sharper’ more ‘pointy’ crown of her head. The baby’s crown putting pressure on your cervix is one of the many factors involve
There are a number of ways to help get labour started, or once labour is started to keep it established. While I’m not medically trained, and what I say here is not meant to be construed as medical advice (always refer to a trained practitioner) I can speak about my personal experience inducing a baby that was 3 weeks post-date. My baby had been fully engaged (head completely in the pelvis in the ‘ready’ position for labour) from about 28 weeks, however rather than tucking her chin in (as babies nearly always do) she flexed her head back as if she were looking toward the place she’d be going. That is called “brow presentation” and our daughter was a ‘complete brow presentation’ (which persised through the entire delivery – she was born forehead and eyebrows first!). What this meant was that the dullest flattest part of her head was sitting on my cervix, not the ‘sharper’ more ‘pointy’ crown of her head. The baby’s crown putting pressure on your cervix is one of the many factors involve
