cervix preperation?

[serenitylove]

im just wondering what you all used for softening your cervix ie: evening primrose rasberry leaf tea etc im a few weeks off needing it yet but with my dd i didnt progress past 2 cm and my cervixjust wouldnt play ball so this time round to aid my vbac im thinking whats the best things to help it along ?

 

[titch]

eating pineapples, although you have to eat a lot. Im trying to eat 1 a day. Its supposed to soften your cervix. Im also putting 2 EPO capsules up my floo before bed every night. I have oily wees, OH got really worried the other morning cos there was oil floating in the loo. He thought it mightve been amniotic fluid!

Raspberry leaf tea/extract tablets dont do anything to your cervix, they tone your uterus so you have nice effective contractions, which I suppose open your cervix better. As long as its soft.

Cant think of anything else for the cervix except semen....I would prefer direct application but some of the ladies onhere reckon taking it orally is more effective

 

[serenitylove]

lols im single so the sermy thing prob best left huge belly doesnt make a good pulling magnate lols gona try the epo tho i think

 

[Rowesb]

eating pineapples, although you have to eat a lot. Im trying to eat 1 a day. Its supposed to soften your cervix. Im also putting 2 EPO capsules up my floo before bed every night. I have oily wees, OH got really worried the other morning cos there was oil floating in the loo. He thought it mightve been amniotic fluid!

Raspberry leaf tea/extract tablets dont do anything to your cervix, they tone your uterus so you have nice effective contractions, which I suppose open your cervix better. As long as its soft.

Cant think of anything else for the cervix except semen....I would prefer direct application but some of the ladies onhere reckon taking it orally is more effective

DH almost got my tea spat at him as I read that!!

perineal massage is supposed to stop tearing
RLT is not advised after sections (from what I have read on here)

 

[titch]

Im not single and Im struggling to get some action so I see your dilema!!!

EPO tablets disolving up your floo it is then. I did read somewhere that you should space them out through the day but I just do it before bed so they dont fall out in tesco or soemthing awful like that!!

 

[Rowesb]

have just refreshed my original thread

 

[serenitylove]

Im not single and Im struggling to get some action so I see your dilema!!!

EPO tablets disolving up your floo it is then. I did read somewhere that you should space them out through the day but I just do it before bed so they dont fall out in tesco or soemthing awful like that!!

i can just imagine my mates face if a dollop of epo slid out in the coffee shop

 

[titch]

On the plus side I bet you could leave the coffee shop without paying, you could pretend you were losing your mucous plug

 

[Leanne and Andy]

You put capsuals up your foof??????????????????????? Intrigued tell me more....

 

[titch]

well thats about it really. I shove 2 up there before I go to bed as high as I can get them, and they disolve overnight leaving evening primrose oil on my cervix which SHOULD be softening it so it gets ready for labour nicely