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Walking walking walking!

Without getting into too much detail, a little zexy time with a good 'finish' is what sealed the deal for me -.-

Walking! Also the weather (record low barometric pressure due to Hurricane Sandy) caused my water to break.

I weeded the garden when I went into labour. Maybe wash some floor or walls?

i seriously did everything: sex, walking (5 miles, in august, in the south, at 40+ weeks), pineapple, spicy food, breast pump, ect. NOTHING worked. the day i went into labor i told my husband that morning i give up, i'm going to sit on my ass and eat pizza all day and i did. i went into labor that evening.

Bouncing on my exercise ball and then that day, I got a pedicure! I'm convinced she sent me into labor ;o)

I tried EVERYTHING (walking, membrane sweep, DTD, herbs, acupressure, acupuncture, breast pump, any old wives tale) . Absolutely nothing helped, maybe taking primrose oil and red raspberry tablets helped my labor progress quickly. I like to think all the acupuncture made for a calm baby. I had two membrane sweeps and the second one could have worked (went into labor 12 hours later).

For my SIL it's making pie crusts, and for me it was spending 8 hours in the kitchen! I was making a whole bunch of freezer meals for after delivery, and my water broke the next morning.

No clue if any of this actually helped, but starting at 37 weeks (after I was off of bed rest), I started walking 2 miles every day, drinking 2 big thermoses of red raspberry leaf tea every day, and had fun times with DH as often as I could convince him to. The doctor swept my membranes (as much as possible when I was only less than 1cm dilated) late in week 39. In the end, I went into labor on my due date.

Indian food with eggplant! Had one Indian dinner on Sunday and a few hours later thought I was leaking amniotic fluid. Went to the hospital but was sent home because it was not amniotic fluid. Two days later, ate Indian food again and that time my water broke for real. (DS was born just 4 days before his due date). I also walked as much as I could the last few weeks.

walking, sex, working out regularly during pregnancy!

Sex and we had a huge snow storm. I was out every 2 hours shoveling with DH, stopping for contractions. Otherwise we would have been snowed in:)

I don't think it was anything I did but personally I'd just enjoy lazy time til 40weeks or so if I were you. I did some cleaning and carrying laundry around though, maybe that helped?

My midwife's suggestion: rub your nipples to produce a hormone that will catalyze labor (I forget what it's called). During the days before I actually went into labor, this worked like a remote control. When I rubbed, I contracted, when I stopped, the contraction stopped. It was pretty scary!
The evening before I went into labor I had pasta arrabiata and after that I went bowling with my dad and my husband. Thinking back, I have no idea how I managed that, being so huge, but somehow I did, and I like to think that was the trigger... =)

I sat on my exercise ball all the time and I think it helped LO drop and engage. Other than that, I just chilled out and didn't do anything special.