While not fool - proof, some women decide to avoid the medical induction (therefore limiting the associated interventions) by trying natural means
of getting labor started.
There's still some debate about how effective spicy food is
for getting labor started (although I have to admit it seemed to work for me!)
Sometimes, nature ends up needing a little help in the form of a medical intervention — whether it's something to nudge labor along or
even get labor started such as the administration of Pitocin or the artificial rupture of membranes, an instrument (forceps, vacuum) or procedure (episiotomy) to help ease a baby out, or fetal monitoring (internal or external) to make sure a baby is weathering the stresses of labor well.
In the past few weeks I have tried everything you can imagine to
get this labor started.
If you want to learn more about naturally induced labor, here are tips on several ways to
get labor started.
They recommended trying some things to
get labor started, one of those things being castor oil.
That gets labor started, and so then they take her off it and she goes on to have easy unmedicated deliveries a couple of hours later.
If you're pregnant and past your due date, you might want to try nipple stimulation to
get labor started.