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(sorry for the mature content...you don't have to read this, but for anyone who is expecting...I found this very interesting)

Since there's growing concern of a possible link between Pitocin (routinely used to induce labor) and autism in children, its best to know what alternatives for inducing labor.

Props to Prostaglandin

Prostaglandins are hormones that help in inducing labor. If you're well beyond your due date and your doctor induces labor, he will probably use a prostaglandin gel to help "ripen" the cervix. So if you're trying to persuade your baby to make her debut with a home remedy, "The endgame here is stimulation of the prostaglandins," says Pat Alagia, MD, vice chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., who shared the tales of historic labor-induction practices.

So how do you stimulate those prostaglandins naturally? The same way you made the baby in the first place. "Sex is a for sure. Semen has prostaglandins in it, and orgasm releases oxytocin, which causes uterine contractions," says Cindy Siegel, CNM, a nurse midwife with Ob-Gyn Associates in Providence, Rhode Island, who delivers babies at the highly ranked Women and Infants' Hospital.

Alagia agrees. "Ejaculate contains prostaglandins, and that's what you want," he says. "I can't tell you the number of patients who've called me and said 'I went into labor at 10:27. Want to know what we were doing?' I tell them, 'No, but I have an idea!'"

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Siegel gives more positive reviews to evening primrose oil, which contains gamma linolenic acid, or GLA, a precursor to prostaglandins. "Taken orally or vaginally, some practitioners swear by it as a way to ripen the cervix," she says.

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