Castor oil?

I’ve heard really bad things about this method but I’ve also heard it worked for a lot. Just don’t know if the reward outweighs the risks.

@Haley I know, I've read very mixed reviews, too. A big benefit for me, if it works, is that I can ensure that my older kids are taken care of as my parents live 2.5 hrs away.

I’ve tried it with 1 of my kids and the one I’m pregnant with now but both times I threw it back up with in secs

A birthing center is going to ha e you do this? I'd go find somewhere else because that's dangerous. There's more risks taking castor oil while pregnant than it actually working. It will dehydrate you, make you nauseated, etc. Even if it does work you risk having diarrhea while in labor and/or make the baby have a bowel movement inside of you and that's dangerous for the baby itself

I’ve heard it’s absolutely horrible and I’ve read mixed results. Some people use it and have the horrible aftermath but baby comes and then some people baby doesn’t come and they just get the horrible aftermath 😂😅

It's crazy that a birthing center is doing this! As a nurse, I would never use castor oil!!

I've read it can cause you to loose your baby if you take too much my mom took it with my sister she's fine but even my mom said she wouldn't recommend it We were talking about this the other day.

My doctor told me this is the one trick I can’t try!

I heard you should only do it under the supervision of a professional if done at all. it’s essentially throwing your GI track into so much stress it induces you to go into labor. That stress on your body can carry over to the baby and could negatively impact the whole experience for both of you

it’s not good bc it can make baby poop in the womb which can cause infections and/or pneumonia

Castor oil causes diarrhea that’s painful for days even without labor going on. You don’t want that. Do they have medical reasons for inducing or they just don’t want to deal with normal labor? With such barbaric methods of induction it can happen that you don’t need to be induced at all

Dangerous to do. Can cause the baby to poo inside

@Mariya they are not pushing induction on me whatsoever! But with this being my 5th and the fact that my 4th was a shoulder dystocia (and over a lb bigger than my 3rd), the "induction" is just something that I wanted to look into. Also, as I mentioned in a previous comment, my family is 2.5 hrs away, and I really don't want to have to bring my 4 boys to the birth center with us.

@Joelle WHO doesn’t have castor oil as a safe labor induction method (I’ve just checked the protocol). I don’t know if you’ve ever tried castor oil as a constipation problem solution, but it’s awful even without labor going on 😕 I’ve read that most of non-protocol methods of labor induction don’t really help if you aren’t ready to go into labor. You might just have a huge diarrhea and bowel pain, but still don’t go into labor

Do not do it!!!!!! Girl I was shitting like a cow on green pasture!!!!! I promise it is not worth it🤣

I was having diarrhea before I took the castor oil this time. 7/28/24 around 2am I took it and nothing (no poop) happened. But around 10am I started to have contractions and went to the hospital at 12pm 4cm dilated. 1 hour later I was 5cm and they admitted me into l&d 3:48pm baby was born 6lbs and 15oz 19 inches. Mind you I was 39 weeks and 3 days. My first time (2021) (38 weeks and 5 days) taking castor oil that day I did poop a lot and it wasn’t pleasant- then it took 24hrs for signs of labor (my waterbroke at 8am the next morning). I wasn’t having any contractions so my midwife gave me a tincture (don’t remember the name) I finally had baby at 3:38am Basically It worked for me but the most recent time my labor was so quick they couldn’t even administer my epidural before I had baby 🥹 and the contractions felt like death itself idk if that was because of the castor oil because with my first baby I did a water birth and this time I did a “dry” hospitalized birth both no medicine

Absolutely never

NO