Jonathan Schaffir says spicy food creates intestinal activity that might encourage labor, and nipple stimulation has been proven to bring on contractions although standard protocols do not exist for its use. In contrast, on another Web page a commenter named Sheryl offers this critique :. Yes, I know you are uncomfortable, but that is pregnancy.
Your baby is not done yet. Labor will start spontaneously when fetal development is complete. Have you ever heard of a fifty-week gestation? Just wait! Your baby will thank you. In my own pregnancy I warded off the potential for feeling pressured, by choosing not to tell anyone my so-called due date. I only said my baby was expected in mid-September, which was actually two weeks late.
Even the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that unless mother or baby is unhealthy, pregnancy does not carry increased risks before 42 weeks. The night before Labor Day, my boyfriend was off doing his own thing, so I found myself on the sofa watching Billy Crystal in Mr.
You just might get a newborn baby out of it. Well, there are a few theories. Some speculate that spicy food and, many add , Chinese food might be able to start contractions because it thoroughly stimulates the digestive system. But others point out that there's really no connection between an expectant mother's gastrointestinal tract and her uterus besides proximity, of course.
Many theorize that it's actually the hormone produced when one consumes spicy food, prostaglandin, that gets things going. But some research shows that you should actually go easy on spicy food, which releases capsaicin that can interfere with your body's natural ability to prevent excessive pain during labor. No, not a pack of Twizzlers—real black licorice, which contains an active ingredient called glycyrrhizin. Strandberg, PhD, surveyed over 1, Finnish women who'd just given birth and figured out how much glycyrrhizin they normally ate.
Apparently, Finns really like their licorice. His study found that babies born to mothers who ate tons of licorice were born an average of two and a half days earlier than those born to mothers who did not eat as much licorice, and he definitively concluded that "heavy licorice glycyrrhizin consumption has been associated with shorter gestation.
Or perhaps it speeds up labor by increasing the hormone prostaglandin. So basically, even when science is involved, nobody has a clue.
According to some, pineapple's the way to go—but this, too, has never been proven. The proteolytic enzyme found in fresh pineapple, bromelain, can soften the tissue surrounding the cervix, but whether or not that could actually bring about labor remains to be seen.
The operative word for this old wives' tale is "old. And as for quickening delivery? Some tuck into heat-packing curries, some lace up their runners and hit the road, and others still revert to the method that got them pregnant in the first place in order to induce labor. In a recent report published in the June issue of Birth , researchers found that more than half of women surveyed said they tried eating spicy foods, walking, having sex and stimulating their nipples in an attempt to kickstart contractions.
Of the women who responded to the survey carried out by Ohio State University, 51 percent of respondents said they tried some of these unprescribed methods. Most of the women who tried these techniques tended to be younger, averaging about 27 years, and were pregnant with their first child and beyond 39 weeks. Other techniques included exercise, the use of laxatives, acupuncture, masturbation and herbal supplements. Among the women who said they had tried to bring on labor, 87 tried walking, 46 reported engaging in sexual intercourse, 22 ate spicy food and 15 performed nipple stimulation.
Some of the respondents tried multiple methods. According to lead author Jonathan Schaffir, some of the theories he's heard from patients and existing literature on inducing labor include: sex can ripen the cervix or lead to uterine contractions; spicy foods and laxatives create intestinal activity that could give the uterus "a nudge"; and starvation works by making a hungry baby escape the womb in search of food.
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