My pregnant friend just drank castor oil.

[lauranicole91]

She's been miserable for weeks and been complaining like no one I've ever seen before!! Goes on and on about how fat she is and blah blah blah. This is her second. But with her first she had preterm issues and was on bed rest and IVs the last 8 weeks and she still had him early.

So now at 38 weeks, after trying massive amounts of walking, spicy food, yoga ball bouncing, she has resorted to castor oil. She's mad that she's felt no affect after 30mins and says she plans to "re dose" in a little bit.

Really?

Rant over.

[Deleted]

Stupid bitch. Maybe that's harsh but I can talk. I fought to keep tommy in another 4 days to hit 39w when I knew he was already well over 10 pounds and mfm was talking immediate c/s. Your baby's lung development is more important than your own comfort.

[rjamz]

Hope she enjoys having the shits

[monkeybabe]

Jan 14, 2013 20:18:18 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Hope she enjoys having the shits

Right?

[unclejesse]

Am I a bad person for really having a good laugh over this?

She's going to have a shitty night.

[jaime183]

Jan 14, 2013 20:18:18 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Hope she enjoys having the shits

[dojo]

I would like to roll my eyes at her, but as someone who did nip stimulation out of curiosity and wound up with my water breaking I feel it might be a tad hypocritical.

[lauranicole91]

I mean I never got to 38 weeks and most likely never will but I could never imagine putting my comfort ahead of my baby's development.

[lolaburns]

Hope she's ready to be on the pot all night. If she thought she was uncomfortable before she definitely will be way uncomfortable now.


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[spaghetticat]

There will be nothing comfortable about shitting your brains out. She is in for a fun night.

[bebeetmoi]

41 weeks, knock yourself out. 38 weeks, that's just nuts/selfish. Being that pregnant sucks, no denying that. But those last few weeks are so important for the baby.

[unclejesse]

I went 41 weeks and there's still no damn way I would have considered this.

[eav2c]

She's really, really dumb. Seriously. I agree with Rjamz--I hope she has a very shitty night.

[monkeybabe]

Confession: When I was a teenager my pregnant 17 year old cousin came over looking for castor oil, not knowing why she'd want CASTROL, I sent her to the garage. She came back all huffy and called me an idiot. Stupid twat had all her babies premature.

[thedahliharpa]

Well she will regret it. I had to take it as a last resort 12 hours after my water broke after contracting/nipple stimming/walking/acupuncture all day. The redose time instructed by my MW was 2hrs. I started exploding an hour and 45 minutes later, thank goodness.
She is really dumb and I hope for her baby's sake her dates are exact.

[rainbowchip]

Jan 14, 2013 20:26:56 GMT -5 bebeetmoi said:

41 weeks, knock yourself out. 38 weeks, that's just nuts/selfish. Being that pregnant sucks, no denying that. But those last few weeks are so important for the baby.

This exactly. And my wish for her is to go to 42 weeks with a doctor who won't induce.

[jaime183]

Jan 14, 2013 20:31:47 GMT -5 unclejesse said:

I went 41 weeks and there's still no damn way I would have considered this.

me too

[laurack]

So crazy! I was 42 weeks and was afraid of castor oil! I did eat a lot of pineapples though...

[orriskitten]

Jan 14, 2013 20:19:00 GMT -5 unclejesse said:

Am I a bad person for really having a good laugh over this?

She's going to have a shitty night.

This made me CH

[lauranicole91]

Jan 14, 2013 20:35:43 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

Confession: When I was a teenager my pregnant 17 year old cousin came over looking for castor oil, not knowing why she'd want CASTROL, I sent her to the garage. She came back all huffy and called me an idiot. Stupid twat had all her babies premature.

Wow there is all sort of awesome all throughly your family!!

I hope she FBs from her phone so she can post shitty statuses all night. She said she chose tonight because she has a regular appointment in the morning. Haha.

[monkeybabe]

Jan 14, 2013 21:00:17 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Jan 14, 2013 20:35:43 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

Confession: When I was a teenager my pregnant 17 year old cousin came over looking for castor oil, not knowing why she'd want CASTROL, I sent her to the garage. She came back all huffy and called me an idiot. Stupid twat had all her babies premature.

Wow there is all sort of awesome all throughly your family!!

I hope she FBs from her phone so she can post shitty statuses all night. She said she chose tonight because she has a regular appointment in the morning. Haha.

I'd say 90% of my dad's maternal side is BSC. My sister takes after them.

[lauranicole91]

So two hours ago she took 1.5 tablespoons. Just under an hour ago she posted that she took another 1.5 tablespoons and is heading to bed. Hopefully the shits set in soon.

[lauranicole91]

Jan 14, 2013 21:04:18 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

Jan 14, 2013 21:00:17 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Wow there is all sort of awesome all throughly your family!!

I hope she FBs from her phone so she can post shitty statuses all night. She said she chose tonight because she has a regular appointment in the morning. Haha.

I'd say 90% of my dad's maternal side is BSC. My sister takes after them.

Makes for great family reunions I'm sure!! Haha.

[spaghetticat]

I love that she feels this is FB play-by-play appropriate.

[thedahliharpa]

Well at least she isn't taking way more than what is advised. I think my dose was 2 tablespoons.

[lauranicole91]

Jan 14, 2013 21:14:25 GMT -5 spaghetticat said:

I love that she feels this is FB play-by-play appropriate.

Hahaha. Right?

[browneyedhunni85]

Jan 14, 2013 20:19:30 GMT -5 dojo said:

I would like to roll my eyes at her, but as someone who did nip stimulation out of curiosity and wound up with my water breaking I feel it might be a tad hypocritical.

I think drinking castor oil and nip stim. is two totally different things.

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Jan 14, 2013 20:48:03 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Jan 14, 2013 20:23:54 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

I mean I never got to 38 weeks and most likely never will but I could never imagine putting my comfort ahead of my baby's development.

Well, I'm not gonna lie. After thinking I was going to go early for months, I was walking and bouncing and willing that baby to be born. Castor oil just feels like crossing a line into inducing, and I wasn't going to induce before 40 weeks. But those are just my own boundaries. I would have been thrilled if the yoga ball had sent me into labor.

This was me exactly. At 38-39 weeks, I was pretty much trying to sprint down the road, hoping it would send me into labor. But castor oil..no WAY!

[rjamz]

Jan 14, 2013 21:18:45 GMT -5 browneyedhunni85 said:

Jan 14, 2013 20:19:30 GMT -5 dojo said:

I would like to roll my eyes at her, but as someone who did nip stimulation out of curiosity and wound up with my water breaking I feel it might be a tad hypocritical.

I think drinking castor oil and nip stim. is two totally different things.

Totally agree.

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[dojo]

Jan 14, 2013 21:30:53 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Jan 14, 2013 21:25:09 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Totally agree.

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To me, they were on the same level. Nipple stim was something I wasn't willing to do either in my weird "this is inducing/this isn't" world. Doesn't mean I didn't think about it!

I think it's the same too.. Especially after my nurse told me docs used to recommend it in her last hospital. I probably wouldn't do it again. Hank was born five days early.