i heard somewhere that drinking green tea can bring on contrations… i just wanted to know if this was true or not.
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can drinking green tea help bring on contractions?
February 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Wandermind // Feb, 2008
Green tea has caffeine and you want your body in a natural relaxed state, so , I wouldn't recommend it. How about lemon in water?
2 Shannon H // Feb, 2008
If you want to bring on contractions and you are full term, scramble some eggs in castor oil and eat them. It worked twice for me.
3 hot maria // Feb, 2008
real rasberry tea(tea leves) will bring out your contractions and make sure youa' re ready
4 elizabeth32132 // Feb, 2008
drinking green tea is a no no during pregnancy! This is because one of the active ingredients, EGCG, binds to folic acid, thereby increasing the risk of certain folate related birth defects.
5 mdowney120 // Feb, 2008
Don't use Caster Oil, Whatever you do. It can make the baby deficate in the placenta which then travels into their lungs and stains their skin. Try the rasberry tea leaves but NO CASTER OIL!!!!
6 Raven // Feb, 2008
Nope it won't. I had a cup of green tea daily when I was pregnant with both of my children and I neither experienced contractions or had children with birth defects. As a matter of fact, the antioxidants helped keep me healthy. It's an old wives tale just like most of these so called answers.
7 Laurie F // Feb, 2008
I don't think anything can bring on true labor except maternal and fetal hormones. There may be some truth that Old Wives' Tales can bring on contractions, but unless the baby has released a hormone, labor won't start. This is why not even pitocin (which is a synthetic form of oxytocin, which is what causes contractions) doesn't always work to deliver the baby. I think most of the things that "worked" for people are coincidences, and they probably would have delivered at that time anyways. You also have to define "work." I've heard people say, "I ate or drank such and such, and four days later, I went into labor, so it worked!" Uhhhhhhhhh, in four days, whatever it was they ingested would have worked its way out!
So I don't believe any of it.
8 aliza1999 // Feb, 2008
Green tea is actually a no no when you are pregnant, especially early in pregnancy. I don't know how far along you are but felt I should answer for anyone else who is pregnant. The reason being is green tea blocks the absorption of folic acid which is essential in the development of a fetus.
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