EBB 144 - Evidence on Pineapple and Sex for Natural Labor Induction

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I answer several questions about natural labor induction:

Can eating pineapple help induce labor contractions? What about having sex? Is that really effective for starting labor!

Natural induction techniques continue to be among our most searched and requested topics at Evidence Based Birth®. I'm excited to share with you the evidence on these common labor induction techniques!

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's episode we're going to talk about eating pineapple or having sex for natural labor induction.
0:08.0	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:18.7	Base Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families
0:25.5	and professionals around the world.
0:28.1	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:31.5	See EB-Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:37.0	Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode of the Evidence Based Birth
0:41.1	podcast. Today we are continuing our series on the evidence on different natural labor induction
0:46.9	methods.
0:47.8	If you go to our archives at evidencebasedbirth.com slash podcast,
0:51.6	you'll see all of our past episodes including
0:54.8	episodes we've done on acupressure breast stimulation castor oil evening
0:59.6	primos oil and more today we're getting towards the end of our series and we're going to talk
1:04.8	about eating pineapple and also having sex to naturally induce labor. So let's start with
1:10.7	pineapple. Eating pineapple is a popular suggestion I see on
1:15.3	social media when people are looking for ways to get labor going naturally.
1:20.2	Pineapple or Ananas Camosus fruit, ripe or unrip, has been used as a
1:26.6	traditional medicine to induce labor and terminate pregnancies in many part of
1:31.2	the world. For example, traditional healers in Fiji prescribe unripe
1:35.3	pineapple for the purpose of terminating early pregnancy. The use of unripe fruit
1:40.5	juice or aqueous or watery extract of pineapple to induce abortion is also practiced in the
1:46.6	Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Trinidad. In India, a hot aqueous extract from ripe pineapple is also used to terminate pregnancy.
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