by Sarah Love

Created on: March 15, 2009

Pregnancy is a funny thing. At first you are elated about the idea of it all; a growing being inside you, the enjoyment of eating for 2, and the amazing changes taking place inside and outside of your body.
In time the realities set in and you have bouts of morning sickness, difficulties sleeping, and lots of aches and pains. Way back when you first discovered this wonderful news, the doctor gave you a due date to look forward to. It seemed to be months away! Then, the due date is looming around the corner, and you are ready to meet the baby. The due date comes and goes, and the baby has chosen to stay inside for a little longer.

This is a challenging situation which often times leads to outside help to get your precious baby to come out and see the world!

During my pregnancy, I was positive, active, and healthy. All things were pointing to a normal delivery without any complications. The due date was quickly approaching. My family was arriving for the delivery, and the house was ready for receiving a new little baby! The problem was my cervix had other plans. The last couple weeks of pregnancy, plan on visiting with your OBGYN every week. I was getting pretty friendly with mine at this point. The appointment the week of my due date my husband joined us to see and hear about what was happening. It's really great if you can have someone with you at appointments at the end of your pregnancy I couldn't remember anything! My OBGYN did an internal exam as we waited patiently for good news. She declared me "pinky dilated" but my cervix was not ripe yet. I had no idea what that meant.

Basically, my cervix was not cooperating to release the baby. I had been told lots of various things to try to help "naturally" induce my labor. My OBGYN also had some great suggestions for us, we discussed them in detail, and she sent us home after scheduling an induction for 10 days later. 10 days later!
I was in tears.

The first thing we were told to do was to have sex. It was the last thing I wanted to do. My husband was ecstatic. I have realized it doesn't matter what you look like, if your husband truly loves you, any sex he can get is great sex. Sperm has lots of prostaglandin in it, which naturally helps to ripen the cervix, and helps it to become shorter and softer making the uterus not have to work so hard. Guess what, having orgasms help too. An orgasm causes uterine contractions, which can also help induce labor naturally.

Along with sex, another natural induction is nipple stimulation.
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