There are also pills if you don’t like the liquid, but I think the liquid works better and faster.

You also might try nettle tea as well. Congrats on your pregnancy!

http://www.cmaj.ca/content/181/6-7/377.full.pdf+html

This study was commissioned by the Province of British Columbia when they made the decision to regulate midwifery care and cover it as part of the public health care system. They wanted proof that midwifery care was safe, and so the government tracked every single homebirth and every single hospital birth with a midwife that occurred over a period of five years. The researchers then selected from the Ministry of Health’s database a pool of carefully matched, low-risk women who met all the guidelines for homebirth (read: no high-risk hospital births to skew results) but who had chosen to give birth in a hospital with a physician and compared the outcomes of the births. It is important to note that this study looked at *planned* homebirths, meaning homebirth women who had to transfer to hospital during labour due to emergency were still included in the homebirth group.

The stats showed that homebirth was safe, with identical rates of maternal death (zero), and LOWER rates of infant death, hemorrhaging, postpartum infection, infants requiring resuscitation after birth, infant birth trauma, meconium aspiration, episiotomy, tearing, and c-section- basically lower rates of everything you’d want to see lower rates of, when compared both to midwife-attended hospital births and physician-attended hospital births. Physician-attended births had the highest infant death rate: 0.64 per 1000 births in the physician’s group compared to 0.35 in the homebirth group. Remember, these were all low-risk pregnancies (a common complaint I hear about studies that show homebirths are safe when compared to hospital births is that high-risk women must give birth in a hospital, which skews results in favour of homebirth- however, this was not the case in this study). About 13,000 births were tracked in all.