What are the best natural methods for inducing a post-term pregnancy?
Thanks for all the kind wishes and suggestions! It’s always encouraging to get support and ideas from people who’ve been there before. Did they strip her membranes yet? Sometimes that helps. Our midwife would have done that on Tuesday, but my wife’s cervix was really “long,” even folded over on itself. She said she would strip/sweep the membranes if she could, but it wasn’t possible. (I’m kinda glad now because we didn’t know it was supposed to be very painful.) We really need to ripen the cervix. I’m a little worried b/c our midwife uses misoprostol/Cytotec to ripen, which is the only thing about the practice that has bothered me at all. (Believe me, I know all about Cytotec, so no need for the stories right now, please.) Stripping the membranes is a poor way to start labor because the clock starts ticking with ruptured membranes … Everybody already answered that one. Not the same thing … I’m not sure we’ll even get
