Following my thread about banana smoothies allegedly speeding up labour, I got the chance to try it out at the weekend! Bump decided to pull the plug and set the waters free on Sunday (5 days early), so there was I, mixing up banana smoothie, waiting for labour to kick in so I could try it out on my way to the old VBAC.
Alas, my silly old body decided NOT to go into labour that day. Or the next day. Went to hospital where they gave me the scary warnings about my waters having gone meaning an infection could get in there. I bounced on the Swiss ball, walked around the hospital grounds a thousand times, and still no labour. So I sacrificed the VBAC and went for the caesarian - I just couldn't bear the thought of some kind of infection getting in and ruining everything right at the end. And I didn't drink the banana smoothie - Mr Grubby did!! He didn't go into labour either.
So I guess another of our pregnant Ish-ers will have to test the theory! Our newest self-sufficientish member is Nya Elsie Rose and she's delicious. Going to wait for her little belly button clip thing to fall off then I'll start her in her little fluffy nappies. Eco disposables until then. I'm off to get some sleep before the next feed.
welcome to the world. It's yours.
