The countdown is beginning! Holly is thisclose to being done with this pregnancy. Actually I am thinking she was done in the middle while in the throes of hyperemesis. At least I know I was back in the day. But Holly is truly suffering from T.O.B.P. syndrome (tired of being pregnant) and she is ready for little Miss Coming Attraction to come out. So much so she is looking into old wives’ remedies to get things moving. And who better to ask than an old wife, er, her mom.
She knows the first thing out of my mouth is going to be is have a little sex because she reminds me it ain’t happening right now. Young parents take note, someday, in one form or another, whether you are ready or not, a conversation sort of like this will happen to you too. Consider yourself warned.
Okay, sex is out of the question and good thing because that is what got us all here in the first place, right?
There’s always good ol’ castor oil and orange juice. Aaaahhh, yes! Nothing like a little bowel cleansing and massive intestinal cramping to get things, er, moving. After all that one would be definitely putting you in the mood for labor and delivery, right?
So a little cleanse isn’t the way to go, then perhaps how about a little nipple stimulation? I know that will increase the traffic here thanks to freaks googling “nipples”.
:::this is me waving hello to the freaks::::
Um, yeah, I can’t believe that I am discussing alternate uses of electric breast pumps with my daughter. But she is nine months pregnant and she is tired of being pregnant. I definitely was done when we got to primrose capsules and what to do with the oil, where to put it and how to put it there. Perhaps we should just go back to that labor-inducing salad that was all the rage back in the day when I was pregnant with her sister Abby.
Did it work?
Well, it was either that or the sex or maybe it was the fact that it was time and she was ready to be born. I’m sure there are a lot of self-induction remedies that anectdotally work but ultimately it comes down to the fact that this baby will come when she is good and ready and whether Holly is ready or not. Hopefully it will be fairly soon because she is ready.
Okay, NOW y’all may share your own old wives’ tales of labor inducing remedies.
