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DEL.ICIO.USExpecting and Overdue? Try These Foods to Induce Labor
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DOES EGGPLANT PARM INDUCE LABOR? This plateful is from Sugo’s in Roswell.
Photo: Jenni Girtman/ AJC
Most of us have heard the old wives’ tales about spicy or exotic food inducing labor — a peppery curry from your favorite Thai restaurant, or your husband’s five-alarm chili.
Well, a colleague shared something with me she came across on the Mckinnon’s Louisiane, in Buckhead, restaurant’s website:
“And speaking of dishes and traditions, Mckinnon’s stuffed eggplant (a casserole with shrimp, crab and eggplant to die for) is guaranteed to get an expectant and past due mom to deliver. Billy says, “if an expectant mom is a day over 9 months and has my stuffed eggplant, we will promise baby in 48 hours or dinner is “on the house.” Needless to say there is quite a parade of past due parents at the restaurant.”
So, if you’re wanting a New Year’s baby, what foods should you eat to make that baby get here by midnight New Year’s Eve?
Suite101 states that “there has not been any research that indicated that eating any spicy foods will induce labor or start contractions. However anecdotally, many women testify that as soon as they ate a spicy dish, within several hours they went into labor.”
Eggplant parmesan, like the one mentioned above, seems to be tops on many moms’ lists. Other faves are tropical fruits like pineapple, mango or kiwi — they contain an enzyme that “tones” the cervix. And of course, spicy foods of any sort.
Do you swear by a food or dish that induced labor for you or your baby’s mom? What is it?
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By mystery poster
December 24, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this
When I was overdue, the midwife prescribed a “midwife’s cocktail,” a mix of Orange Juice, Castor Oil, and a shot of vodka. Most disgusting thing I ever tasted. It gave me four hours of contractions 4 minutes apart, but no baby until a couple weeks later.