Okay today's method is getting a stretch and sweep. For those that don't know, a stretch and sweep is basically where your doctor will stick their finger up your hoo hah and try to stretch out your cervix once it had started dilating. Thats the basic version of things anyways.

Method: Stretch & Sweep.
Difficulty: Its fairly uncomfortable, besides the awkwardness of having someone's cold fingers inside you while you lay on a table avoiding eye contact, there is a lot of pressure and the stretching can get a bit painful.
Results: Discomfort, a few contractions, still getting them but they are VERY spread apart.
Is baby coming: Possibly. Probably not but he's close.
Would you recommend: Yes. Its uncomfortable but has a lot of good results and its the best method outside of sex that I've tried so far. 

Question of the Post: Have you ever had a stretch and sweep? What was your experience with it? Leave your responses in the comment section below and dont forget to vote in the poll in my sidebar before you leave the blog. 

So I've been super busy over the last few days organizing my room and getting things ready for our little aliens appearance. Due to that I haven't had a chance to update you guys on various labor induction things I have done. 10 Days of Labor Induction just became 10 Ways of Labor Induction, and today I'll be sharing the results of ways 4-7 with you!

Method: Eat Spicy Food.
Difficulty: There wasn't any difficulty really. Just yummy food.
Results: Nothing came of this technique for me, but I don't think the food I ate was spicy enough. I had some rigatoni with meatballs and some spicy sauce my dad made especially for this purpose but I don't think it really had enough of a kick to it. If he isn't here soon I may try this method again with some spicier food.
Is baby coming: Nope.
Would you recommend: Maybe with something spicier than what I had?

Method: Climb Stairs.
Difficulty: It will probably make it hard for your pregnant self to breath. So good luck with that.
Results: Cramps, Small contractions, and a complete loss of breath.
Is baby coming: No still no baby.
Would you recommend: Sure! It did give me a few small contractions so maybe it would work completely for someone else!

Method: Squats.
Difficulty: The fact that gravity hates me now with my belly and I could only do like 3 squats before falling on my ass.
Results: A sore butt?
Is baby coming: No.
Would you recommend: If you can manage to balance yourself for them with a belly getting up and down like that then why not. I however could not.

So there you have 3 more ways to induce labor and in a few hours I will update you on how things go with my midwife and have a new labor induction post up because I will be asking for a stretch and sweep. I don't know if I will be getting it today though so you might have to wait a bit for the post about it. 

Question Of The Post: Did any of these methods work for you? Share your results in the comments section below. And don't forget to vote in the poll on my sidebar before you leave the blog!

Alrighty so yesterday was day 3 of my 10 days of labor induction. I read somewhere that warm baths can help start labor. I had a bath bomb that I wanted to try out and figured I might as well. Honestly I don't know why I listened to whoever wrote that because warm baths have always slowed my contractions not started them.

Method: Warm Bath.
Difficulty: The only difficult aspect of this was getting myself in and out of the bath. Standing up isn't really easy anymore.
Results: It slowed down the contractions I was having all day.
Is baby coming: Not from the bath no. Its actually probably going to take longer because of that.
Would you recommend: No. Just 100% no.

Question of the Post: Have you had success with this method?

IF YOURE RELATED TO ME DON'T READ THIS. SORRY MOM.

Alright so this post is a few hours late so expect two posts for this series today but day two of attempting to induce labor is done and since I stayed with the fiance last night sex was obviously the
most convenient method to try out so....

Method: Sex.
Difficulty: Aside from the usual pregnancy sex awkwardness because of the belly this is probably the easiest and most enjoyable way to try starting labor tbh.
Results: A few contractions; I usually get them after sex though but these ones were strong and lasted like all night.
Is baby coming: probably not but if we went for a few more rounds who knows.
Would you recommend: yep. But just because it's sex..whoops.

Question of the Post: Have you had success with this method?

So today is the first day of my 10 days of labor induction series, as promised. The trick I tried out today was walking. Lots and lots of walking. I went shopping for some things for the planner I'm making (I'll make a post about that soon) and I also got some craft things and outdoor fun stuff for Ben and some new undergarments and bath things for myself. Overall we were out for about 6 hours and we were walking around shopping for at least 5 of those 6 hours. Nothing too intense but I was also pushing a stroller a lot of the time so that's something. I don't think tonight will be the night that Michael makes an appearance so it was a bust overall but I did have 4 rather painful contractions while we were out, I'm not sure if the walking had anything to do with it or if it would have happened regardless. I'm leaning towards option number two. So that's how that went but to summarize...

Starting today until Michael's due date (or whenever he decides to show up) I will be trying at least one labor inducing thing every day. I'll keep you guys updated every day with a post about how successful each trick was and if I would recommend it. I'm actually pretty excited to start this so wish me luck!

Question Of The Post: What ways do you know of to induce labor? Have you tried any of the various tricks floating around to start your labor? Was it successful or a waste of time? Let me know in the comments section. :)