How much Evening Primrose Oil do you use to induce labor and how do you use it?

Question

How much and how often do you use it and do you take it orally or vaginally? Also how much Red Raspberry Leaf tea should you drink to help start labor?

Answer 1

Evening Primrose oil and red raspberry tea leaf are not labor induction tools, they are used to ready your body for labor... Evening Primrose Oil is a prostiglandin that will help to soften your cervix making it ready for dilation, but will not dialate you. You take approximately 1000mg twice a day. Either orally or as a vaginal suppository. Red Raspberry Tea Leaf helps to tone your uterus making your Braxton Hicks contractions actually work for your body. You drink it in a tea, or put it in your tea (if it's a tincture) approximately 3-4 times a day. Lots of women take red raspberry tea leaf all through their pregnancy to help make their uterus strong for when labor starts :) BTW the only reason these are listed under induction methods is because if your body is ready when your baby is ready then labor will come on naturally instead of having to be ripened and such in hospital. Only time will actually induce labor :)

Answer 2

EPO and RRLT don't induce labor.

EPO can help to ripen your cervix, but it will not start contractions. In your final weeks of pregnancy you can prick two capsules with a pin and insert them vaginally right before bed. You can either leave the whole thing there to disolve or squeeze the oil out and rub it into your cervix.

RRLT tones the uterus. This will make contractions more productive when they do come. It will not cause contractions. It also contains a lot of vitamin C, which can help you grow a strong bag of water. (Labor is easier the longer your bag stays intact.)