does pineapple really induce labor?

I just ate like 3/4 of a can of pineapple and just as I was finishing it up I remembered my friend saying something two weeks ago about pineapple inducing labor. She had done some research on natural ways to induce labor and it was one of them. Is it really true?? Was eating pineapple a bad idea??

 

It can help move things along, but only if your body/baby is ready. However, canned pinapple is NOT, it's only fresh pineapple The nutrient that *helps* is lost during the canning process.

 

Hmm, I've never heard of that. I doubt it will trigger PTL and I'm sure you're okay.

 

OK good!

I was like OMG WHAT DID I JUST DO??? Nice to know!
I feel kind of foolish now.

 

Yep, it's just the fresh stuff.

 

Don't feel bad, when I was overdue with my 3rd, I downed a whole can of pineapple before finding out it had to be fresh LOL!

 

Well it didn't work for me, even the fresh stuff, and believe me at 38 weeks I WANTED it to!

Alyson

 

I can answer that with a definate NO. I craved fruit (strawberries and pineapple) and ate it every day that I was pregannt....the canned pineapple that is...and never sent me into labor.....eat it up girlie

 

I can answer with a definite YES YES YES. I carried to 37 weeks and after being told by my doctor that we wouldn't induce but would rather wait and see until my 40-week due date, I took matters into my own hands. I looked online, found that eating fresh pineapple could induce labor, ate half of one Saturday night, and Sunday morning my water broke. But your body has to be ready to go and just need some "prompting" (I had been slightly effaced and a fingertip dialated for about a week or so), otherwise it won't affect you. I was obviously ready to go as the kiddos were born just fine!!!!

 

hmm....i have been eating fresh pineapple this entire pregnancy because i crave it. i ate a ton the other day. maybe that's why i woke up crampy!

 

I tried it as one of many, many ways to try to get Dax out before the midwives were really pressuring me to induce. I ate probably about 3 fresh pineapples in 2 days but got nothing other than some indigestion. <_<