What is castor oil? Today, castor oil can be found in many nonmedicinal applications: Castor oil is used as a mold inhibitor, food additive, and flavoring agent. Castor oil is used in manufacturing goods like plastics, fibers, paints, and more. Castor oil for labor. Does it work? Should you induce? You have an infection in your uterus. You have high blood pressure , diabetes , or another condition that could put you or your baby at risk. The takeaway.
Whatever happens, try not to worry too much. Your baby will be here eventually! Share on Pinterest. Parenthood Pregnancy Pregnancy Health. How to Start Labor Contractions Naturally. Rebecca Dekker: She recommended to her clients, that the first dose be ingested first thing in the morning after making sure your midwife or care provider is available. She always had her clients repeat the dose in four hours if there was still no regular pattern of contractions.
She said the time to call the midwife for a home birth, or head to the hospital, or birth center, was usually about one and a half to four hours later. In her experience, typically, the babies were born 8 to 15 hours after the first dose.
Louise also noted that she only uses USP grade, which is US pharmaceutical grade castor oil, because it does not contain impurities. Rebecca Dekker: Also, to keep a note that we still have a lack of safety information for people with prior Caesarean births. There is no research on the safety, and we do have that one case report with a negative outcome.
I can say that personally, with my third baby, I considered castor oil, and I even went to the pharmacy and bought it. But when I unscrewed the top and poured some out, I could not bring myself to take it.
So I found it interesting that midwives have some really unique protocols for making the castor oil more palatable. So typically, the recipes that people send me today have some kind of fat agent in it.
For example, one midwife recommended four to six ounces of orange juice with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream to make a pleasant creamsicle taste. Or, another recipe that was sent to me included one cup of champagne, one cup apricot nectar, and four tablespoons almond butter.
Regardless of the recipe, most midwives recommend a milliliter dose, which is two ounces, or 60ccs, blended and served cold with a straw. The purpose of the straw is so that it goes straight to the back of your throat.
Now, lets talk about eating date fruit to start labor. Date fruit is also called date palm or the Phoenix dactylifera plant. Date fruit is considered a sacred fruit, especially in Islamic traditions. The Holy Koran, the holy book of Islam, Allah instructs the Virgin Mary [inaudible ] to consume date fruits when she gives birth to prophet, Issa, peace will be upon him. Rebecca Dekker: Dates are very nutritious. They contain a high percentage of carbohydrates, B vitamins, calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
In fact, they have 15 types of salts and minerals, proteins, and vitamins. They also have fat. The efficacy of date fruit consumption in late pregnancy and during labor is attributed to its nutritional and biochemical properties.
Researchers also think that date fruits affect oxytocin receptors and help the uterine muscles respond better to your own oxytocin, resulting in more effective uterine contractions.
Rebecca Dekker: In Iran, researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey of nearly a thousand pregnant mothers to better understand traditional, and complimentary, and alternative medicine practices during pregnancy. In , Nassiri et al. They included randomized control trials that assessed the effects of date fruit consumption on any type of pregnancy labor or birth outcomes among low risk participants. Being low risk was defined as the lack of these conditions in the current pregnancy.
So not being pregnant with multiples or a breach baby, no complications, such as placenta previa, no bleeding during pregnancy, no ruptured membranes, preeclampsia, hypertension, diabetes, or any other medical conditions. Rebecca Dekker: Participants who were included in the review were between 18 and 35 years of age with a gestational age ranging from 36 to 42 weeks. Eight of the 11 studies were able to be combined in the meta analysis.
So they had statistics that could be combined together into one large study. Six of the studies were considered high quality, and only one study was a double blind controlled trial.
The authors had looked at all studies between and ,, so this was over a 10 year time span and they looked at studies in all languages. Ten of the 11 randomized control trials in the systematic review had the pregnant parents eat dates in whole form, and one trial used date syrup instead of whole dates.
That study that used date syrup did have an appropriate method of blinding. There was a placebo group that received a syrup made with sodium saccharin, which is an artificial sweetener. In three of the studies, people only ate date fruit for one day, and in eight of the studies, the participants were told to eat date fruits for anywhere from 10 to 28 days of pregnancy. Rebecca Dekker: In the systematic review with the 11 randomized trials, the researchers found that people who are randomly assigned to eat dates had a shorter length of the early phase of labor, fewer cases of postpartum bleeding, fewer women needed to be induced or have augmentation, fewer of them had vacuum-assisted deliveries, there were fewer cases of ruptured membranes before admission, a higher Bishop score on admission to the hospital, so their cervix were more ripe, and fewer cases of prolonged first and second stages of labor.
In the meta analysis of the eight randomized control trials, where they were able to combine the data all in one and analyze it together, found that date fruit reduced the length of pregnancy in the studies where women started eating dates at 37 weeks of pregnancy or earlier, ate 70 grams a day or more of dates and ate date fruit for more than 20 days. They also found that people who ate date fruit during pregnancy had increased cervical dilation on admission to the hospital and a shorter length of the first stage.
Rebecca Dekker: That systematic review is published in There were two other randomized control trials published in that also showed positive findings.
These studies were not part of that systematic review, because they were published after the systematic review stopped collecting data in In the first one, published by Ahmed et al.
That was one group. The other group was told to eat seven dates and had IV fluids only. Then, there was a third group that was not given dates or water, just IV fluids. The researchers found a shorter first stage among the two groups that were assigned to eat dates during labor.
There were no differences between the three groups and rates of spontaneous vaginal birth, epidurals, episiotomies, Cesareans, forceps, or vacuum. Conclusions: The use of castor oil is related to a higher probability of labour initiation within 24 hours. Castor oil can be considered a safe non-pharmacological method for labour induction. There are some situations in which your healthcare provider may recommend that the safest course of action is inducing labor.
In these types of cases, your healthcare provider may recommend inducing labor by medication or by one of a few different procedures that either rupture the amniotic sac or help open the cervix with the aim of encouraging contractions to start.
If you're growing impatient and ready to meet your little one, hang in there, and always feel free to reach out to your healthcare provider with any questions or concerns.
Whether your baby is born in a few hours, days, or weeks from now, the thrilling moment you meet your little one is getting closer. Updated April 01,
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