Labor Old Wives tales

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I'm curious, did any of you "prove" an Old Wives tale about going into labor?

We had a big storm front roll in on Tuesday afternoon. At work yesterday, a co-worker with two kids said "I was thinking of you last night; sometimes changes in barometric pressure will jump-start labor." Apparently his daughter was born on a day the temperature dropped from 60 to 15 degrees in 3 hours...

There is a full moon next Monday too...

[mrshandy]

I don't know if it's an old wives tale, but a few hours before I went into labor I walked up a huge ass hill.

I really think that helped to get the ball rolling.

[ijack]

the drop in pressure isn't actually an old wives tale, it's actually true. the l&d nurses say it's actually more effective than the full moon.

[fortmyersbride]

There was a full moon on the evening of the day DS was born

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No and I was so mad about it too lol. There was the "super moon" 10 days before I went into labor, and then there were all these changes in barometric pressure and each time my mom called me to say "are you in labor, these changes will do that."

The only thing that worked was scheduling my induction.Ha. Then I went into labor really fast.

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Oct 25, 2012 9:10:59 GMT -5 mrshandy said:

I don't know if it's an old wives tale, but a few hours before I went into labor I walked up a huge ass hill.

I really think that helped to get the ball rolling.

Hmm, scheduling myself for an uphill hike this weekend...

[Brie]

Oct 25, 2012 9:11:53 GMT -5 @mrsbecky07 said:

The only thing that worked was scheduling my induction.Ha. Then I went into labor really fast.

This. I tried everything. Nothing worked.

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DD was born on the night of a full moon. Also the night of her due date so I think she was just ready.

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Oh, I don't know if this is an OWT or not, but having sex definitely helped things along.

[gibbinator]

I also had a lot of vested hope in supermoon as I was already 7 days overdue. Had to wait another 2 days though

[Ashley&Scott]

Lots of walking & snow storm

There was a full moon 2 days before he was born, I went to the hospital that night but got sent home in early labor.

[jenny1223]

I don't know if this is necessarily an old wives tale, but my water broke at work at the end of the day that I finished up all my necessary tasks and trained my replacement. (I was planning on working 3 more days.) It was like he was waiting for me to be ready.

[shortstax]

I gave birth on a saturday night of a full moon. When I got to the hospital, the whole maternity ward was full. Could be a coincidence, though.

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Oct 25, 2012 10:20:46 GMT -5 jenny1223 said:

I don't know if this is necessarily an old wives tale, but my water broke at work at the end of the day that I finished up all my necessary tasks and trained my replacement. (I was planning on working 3 more days.) It was like he was waiting for me to be ready.

Unfortunately I won't be able to wrap up all my projects before I'm out. I sent our Legal dept. two draft contracts that I need edited before I can "finish" the project, and they told me they're short staffed and won't have them for me until late November!

Everything else is pretty neat and tidy though...

[jenny1223]

Oh! And contractions didn't start for me until about 24 hours after my water broke. I was trying everything and what finally worked was using an electric breast pump. Nipple stimulation for the win! (It was funny because it was a joke with DH and me during childbirth class that the answer to everything was nipple stimulation.)

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Oct 25, 2012 11:52:04 GMT -5 jenny1223 said:

Oh! And contractions didn't start for me until about 24 hours after my water broke. I was trying everything and what finally worked was using an electric breast pump. Nipple stimulation for the win! (It was funny because it was a joke with DH and me during childbirth class that the answer to everything was nipple stimulation.)

Ha! As I was laying in bed this morning thinking about not going into labor, I debated playing with my nipples. But DH was still sleeping and I think he'd be like "wtf are you doing?"

[cmarie11]

Oct 25, 2012 9:22:21 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

Oh, I don't know if this is an OWT or not, but having sex definitely helped things along.

For the record I'm an L&D PA

Sex definitely helps! Semen has prostaglandins in which help ripen the cervix, making it softer and ready to dilate.

Nipple stim can help too...it releases oxytocin, the natural form of pitocin.

Of course neither will work unless your body is ready.

And there's your science lesson for the day, lol