An excellent home remedy to accelerate labor is raspberry leaf tea as raspberry leaves help to tone and prepare the muscles of the uterus for delivery, helping labor progress at a good pace and not so painful.
Raspberry leaf tea should be taken from the 32 weeks gestation because it takes a few weeks to have effect in the body. Therefore, it should not be taken once, very close to the birth, because it can cause intense contractions, causing suffering in the baby.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon of raspberry leaves or 1 sachet of raspberry leaves
- 1 cup boiling water
Method of preparation
Add the raspberry leaves to the boiling water, cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Coar, sweeten with honey to taste and drink initially 1 cup of tea per day, gradually increasing to 3 cups of tea per day.
As an alternative to tea, you can suck ice cubes made from tea or buy the raspberry leaf capsules and ingest 1 300 mg capsule in meals 3 times a day from the 32 weeks of gestation.
Learn other healthy ways to accelerate labor in: How to speed up labor.
When not to drink raspberry leaf tea
Raspberry leaf tea should not be taken in cases where:
- The pregnant woman had a previous fast labor, which lasted up to 3 hours;
- A C-section is planned for medical reasons;
- The pregnant woman has had a caesarean or premature birth before;
- The woman had vaginal bleeding during pregnancy;
- There is a family or personal history of breast or ovarian cancer, endometriosis or fibroids;
- The baby is sitting inside the belly;
- The pregnant woman has a health problem in pregnancy;
- Pregnancy of twins;
- Labor has to be induced.
If the pregnant woman experiences contractions of Braxton Hicks after drinking tea, she should decrease her amount or stop taking it.
