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Sex to induce labor?

  • poll: Did sex help you to induce labor?
    Yes indeed! : (17 votes)
    28 %
    No, but it was fun trying! : (15 votes)
    25 %
    Sex didn't help, but _________________ did. : (5 votes)
    8 %
    I'd rather be eating ice cream and watching television. : (24 votes)
    39 %
  1. mrsjazz

    coconut / 8234 posts

    @rahlyrah: There needs to be another option: No, and it was NOT fun trying!

    By that point I had so much hip pain and felt like a cow that it was definitely not fun.

    @Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Mucus plug = your vagina blowing it's nose. So gross!

  2. Lozza

    pear / 1837 posts

    Sex didn't seem to make a difference, but I had acupuncture (first time ever in my life) 10 days before EDD to help ease pregnancy symptoms like nausea and insomnia, and my water broke that night! No idea if there's causation or just coincidence, but hell, I'll try anything so plan to do it again with #2!

  3. littlebittyhouse

    pear / 1570 posts

    It didn't induce labor for me but I think it helped to dialate. At 38 weeks I was 2cm and we DTD like everyday because I really didn't want an induction.

  4. Running Elley

    coconut / 8681 posts

    It totally worked for us! At 38 weeks I was 3cm dilated, 80%effaced and I had my membranes stripped. That week I walked a TON, did a lot of exercise ball bouncing, was drinking RRL tea. At 38+5 we DTD and my water broke an hour later! I definitely think it only worked because my body was ready though.

  5. swedishfish

    GOLD / coconut / 8266 posts

    Haha, we tried on Saturday night and I'm still sitting here 39 weeks pregnant!

  6. loveisstrange

    pineapple / 12526 posts

    Heck no. At that point, I would have preferred staying pregnant to having sex. Ick.

  7. lemondrop

    bananas / 9118 posts

    We didn't bother to try, I didn't want to be touched. I walked and walked and walked and only got bh contractions. What worked for me was bending over to pick up a pen I dropped. That broke my water!

  8. mrskc

    bananas / 9357 posts

    I think it induced labor. We did the deed Saturday afternoon and I went into the labor at 4 am!

  9. kiddosc

    grapefruit / 4278 posts

    Sex was one of several things we tried. We went on tons of long walks, had sex the night before labor and I had my membranes stripped the morning before labor started... My neighbor made her husband have sex with her like 3x a day for a week to get labor started.

  10. sslm

    cantaloupe / 6397 posts

    @kiddosc: same. Sex the night before, membranes stripped the next afternoon, and labor started that evening. Maybe the sex helped? Who knows!!!

    I was 41+5 when I went into labor so she was plenty ready to come... The sex and the membrane stripping may have had absolutely nothing to do with it!!

  11. Mrs. Lemon-Lime

    wonderful pea / 17279 posts

    @mrsjazz: can't wait. Lol

  12. CupQuakeWalk

    coconut / 8475 posts

    @mrsjazz: eww what is wrong with you, lady?!? No more comparisons of mucus plug to anything ever again please....;)

  13. mrs. wagon

    blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts

    I always tell women who are close-- unprotected sex! I'm convinced that's what put me into labor with WJ! Never lost my plug either (came out during labor).

    With LMW we tried multiple times after I lost my plug and nothing. She was not budging.

  14. betsyboop

    nectarine / 2886 posts

    It didn't work for me but my close friend was not allowed to have sex from week 30 on during her last (3rd) pregnancy because her first two children were really early, and the contractions started because of sex!

  15. erinpye

    pomegranate / 3706 posts

    Didn't work for us. I tried everything but castor oil, and none of it worked. Baby finally had to be evicted when she was almost a week overdue, due to low fluid.

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