Comments on: Prepatory Herbs for a Natural Delivery

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:43:44 +0000

I am 33 weeks with my second. I am planning on using Evening Primrose Oil to try to prepare my cervix a bit this time around. I bought the 4 oz. bottle from Mountain Rose Herbs, however I am unsure how to measure out 500mg-2500mg like most people recommend, when the jar is just a bottle of oil. Can you help me with this? I would be so grateful. I have searched everywhere for this information and have yet to find anything.

Thanks so much!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:04:49 +0000

No, I wouldn’t recommend starting them too early. Probably 32 weeks at the earliest. I cannot recall when my mom started them, but she also didn’t know she was expecting twins till 28 weeks.

By: Jen McKinney

Jen McKinney — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:49:33 +0000

Hi Lindsay! I realize this is an old post but hopefully you see this I had a question for you about Dr. Christopher’s. You mentioned your mother used this with a twin delivery. I am currently pregnant with twins. My 1st daughter was a csection, my 2nd child (son) was a VBAC (yay!) and I thought this one would be too but my doctor is hesitant to do a twin VBAC. However, if a twin VBAC is a possibility, I would like to use Dr. Christophers as my VBAC with James was three days of active labor. Seriously. My question is this: because a twin pregnancy is considered full term at 36 weeks and most deliver then, would you start taking the suppliments at 30 weeks or start them like a normal pregnancy at 34? When did you mother start taking them for her twins? Thanks so much!

By: Shara

Shara — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:33:10 +0000

I love your blog, and have read so many that didn’t really seem to know what they are talking about…I recently created my own blog and aspire to your standards. Thank you for the quality articles!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:02:42 +0000

Drink it cold by all means!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:27:12 +0000

One more question regarding the Pregnancy Tea. It’s starting to warm up here and I’m not craving hot liquids at all. You think it will still be as effective to make the tea iced or do I need to drink it hot?

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:03:14 +0000

Unfortunately, you will need two bottles to cover you for the 6 weeks. It is rather silly that they don’t put the whole quantity needed in one bottle, so you are left with 1/4-1/2 bottle left…but I always save it for the next pregnancy. I would recommend talking with a Naturopath or midwife if you want more natural recommendations.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:42:37 +0000

Hey, Lindsey…I’m going to order the Dr. Christopher’s and I’m wondering if 1 bottle is sufficient. For some reason my doctor told me not to take the Evening Primrose Oil. I need to ask her to explain more clearly why. Last baby I had my water broke before I even began to efface and after 8 hours of contractions I still hadn’t dilated even a little. Needless to say, I ended up being induced and had an epidural, but I have a beautiful, healthy little girl who is almost turning 1! I was thinking that the Evening Primrose Oil would be good to take because of my past experience to insure that my cervix would be “ripened” sooner! But she said no. Hmmmm….Thoughts?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:43:30 +0000

I wonder, is there a really good pre-natal vitamin to take during the entire pregnancy? I went to our local health food store and there are so many brands and they all range from $20 to $60. I felt overwhelmed and the ladies that work there recommend just about all of them, but I’d like to get my money’s worth, especially if I need to buy a few bottles of the vitamins to last the entire pregnancy. I think I will try taking Dr Christopher’s product when the time comes, however, I was only in labor for about two hours last time and in hard labor for 45minutes (and I had a natural birth not by choice:)but she came so quickly), but I’m constantly being told that each baby and birth is very different, I’m praying for one similar to my first:) and I believe I will purposefully do an all natural birth this time (by choice:)
Also, is it true that its not good to drink coffee when your pregnant? I drank one cup a day with my last pregnancy but my husband mentioned not too long ago that he thinks maybe it’d be a good idea to start weaning myself off of it for this pregnancy, he heard it was bad for the baby?

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:41:27 +0000

Yes, I was just following my midwife’s recommendations.