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Castor Oil && Red Rasberry Leaf Tea mixed!

So im just soooo over being pregnant so i got told in the ultrasound baby is looking amazing lungs and everything is fully developed and i am 36 weeks and 4 days pregnant and i was so over whelmed tonight so i bought some castor oil and red rasberry leaf tea and figured im gonna mix them so i just drank the tea and put 3 table spoons of castor oil in it im praying it works i am currently bouncing on a ball and gonna shower in hot water soon and finish organizing things just to be prepared in case it was to work!
Wish me luck!!
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How did it go ? Did anything happen ?
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Im gonna mix mine in red raspberry tea and see what happens :)
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8367118 tn?1442605420
With my last pregnancy I drank semihot chamomile,tea amd,it worked that night :) belly was hard as a rock and,comtractions 5 mins apart.. then it slowed down so I drank another cup and walked. Doctor sent,me to stay at the hospital
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We're due date buddies lol I'm 36+4 to May 12th babies yayy
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Thank you :)
And yeah like i took it not long ago but not feeling anything so i dont think its gonna work, but yeah i dont know i dont pay attention to the negitivity only the ones that are supportive so it dont bug me much but thanks for the ones that were being supportive :)
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I did it and it was a horrible and painful experience.  Baby was fine but I had diarrhea all night then went into labor starving and tired.  Please don't do it.  I wish I haven't.
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I tried it with my 1st daughter & i never had NO PROBLEMS..It helped her with dropping but ive been stopped with preterm and they say its harder to start up labor once being stopped a few times.. i think im gonna try it again ive heard bad and good but its on us &  it doesnt make us bad moms or selfish!!! Btw im 36&4 & doc said she can come now if she wants.. goodluck :)
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Forget the negative comments they're irrelevant anyways I know I do 40 squats a day I be sore but it helps
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It's your body and your baby hun. On a side note, the American Association of Pediatrics has changed full term to 39 weeks.  There is still a lot of brain development going on those last few weeks.  I had my son at 36+4  and it was scary. The drs were all fre@king or about how early he was. We had to stay in the hospital 4 days. He wasn't as responsive as he should have been.  I was miserable those last few weeks burr I would rather he stayed in and cooked a little while longer!  Good luck hun
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I never said it did matter to ME, i said to other peiple on here it would.irritate more. Ive seen posts like this everywhere on here and the woman always gets bashed so ive noticed depending on how much they say they took it causes a certain amount of awareness from other women on here.
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It shouldn't matter how many she put in people should leave her alone
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You definitely said you put 3 in. That probably made a lot more people on here irritated.
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Where did u buy it?
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My sister tried it with her baby and my nieces came out perfectly fine there smart and beautiful she took half a bottle i disnt take as much
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Thank you :)
And yeah i only took 1 table spoon of castor oil i said i was thinking on taking 3 but its gross so i decided not to, and yeah i been bouncing on a ball and doing squats and what not im just so exhausted i get sooo swollen and im tryna manage it but it hurts...
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First off this her baby not y'all so stop with the negative rude comments y'all worry about y'all child not hers good luck sweetie squats really help I would try rrlt by itself first
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Stop being rude! It's her choice to do whatever she would like. I guarantee she's heard and read up on all the risks. We're here for support not bashing.  
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Try to wing it out just in case its nt just about u its the baby too
I wish with my pregnancy I cn mke it to 40 wks naturally but I cnt so im stuck on gtn shots once a month to help me stay pregnancy my other two were 35 and 34 I Want 40wks
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Wow...not a good idea. You are going to have serious diahrea. And no labor. Thats also not true because the lungs are not fully developed at 36 weeka. Not true at all. You ate being selfish. But the baby is not going to xome because its not ready. You will def regret takinh ao much castor oil. Not recommended until 41 weeka.
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By 2:30 me nd my fiance started walking for a about a hour started having contractions  called my dr went to her office at 6:30 she put me on the monitor nd they were 5 mins apart went to the hospital was 2 cm dilated the whole next day i was having strong contractions every 3 mins nd was stuck at 3 cm, all Wednesdaythat evening they stated pitocin to help move things quicker the contractions became to strong i ended up getting a epidural around 1 am i got a fever which made my babies heart beat go up into the 200's they had me ready to go onto a emergency c section then a few mins later his heart beat went back to normal then all that night my contractions were every 2 mins 8 cm dilated, thurs morning around was sick at 8 till about 9am got extra pain meds at about  9:45 they waited for his head to be all the way down at 10:20 started pushing a few times completely numb but with amazing help fromthe nurse nd my fiance i had our beautiful baby boy at 10:45 prefect nd healthy....i will not do the castor oil again tho . Nd i wouldn't have done it at 36 weeks
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I did castor oil at 38 weeks, my dr told me to try it because the hospital wouldnt induce me till 39 nd i was so beyond done with being pregnant...i went to the doctors ion tues morning nd had no sign of him coming any time soon, wasn't dilated, at 12:30 pm i drank 2 ounces
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6363715 tn?1394225781
Oh my gosh girl im 39 w 4 days but im too scared to try casteroil. I havent heard great things about it. Good luck tho im trying to do anythinf natural to induce i was at 1 cm on wednesday and today im at 2 1/2 hopefully ill have her soon!
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7678269 tn?1397862382
Not tryin to be rude or anything but do you know that it can make ur baby have its first bowl movement in the womb an that can cause baby to die?
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Yeah i doubt it would work though honestly baby os great they said but honestly i dont think this is gonna work pr put me into labor at all so im not really worried
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