I don't know if it helped but I moved around our bedroom furniture, and that night my water broke....however, it was 8 days until I went into active labour.

My little sister did castor oil and orange juice. She didn't go into labour, but she spent a whole day in the washroom attatched to the toilet. She swore she would never do taht one again!

I've heard raspberry tea too.

How far overdue are you? I know how you feel, I was a few days late and losing my mind. I considered the castor oil and then heard horror stories so I didn't think it was worth doing to my body.

good luck!

I went and got an adjustment, it wasn't my first time going to get one and I just happened to have one scheduled anyways I started having contractions about 3 miles down the road and had my son 24 hours later :)

I've heard bad things about castor oil. The theory is that the diarrhea it causes will help your uterus contract. And it probably does cause a few contractions, but they're not from labor, they're just from the terrible diarrhea.

raspberry tea will also cause contractions, but if the baby isn't ready, you'll just be sitting there with contractions that don't lead to anything.

I don't know if anything truly works. The baby comes when they're ready. But you can always try. I'd suggest the least invasive tricks, like squating, climbing stairs two at a time, nipple stimulation, and the raspberry tea is ok, but don't be surprised if you start having contractions that aren't due to labor (you'll know it's not labor because they won't be consistent. You'll just be having random contractions, like braxton hicks only a little more painful).

Personally there is nothing that will force that baby out
In my opinion castor oil should be a last resort if you're 13 days late and have no other choice. Not only does it cause diarreah which can cause dehydration and not start labor but it can cause your baby to also have a BM and have meconium in the amniotic fluid

I've heard intercourse and breast stimulation. Will your doctor rupture your membranes? Also, my dad is a chiropractor and he says to gently try to move the bridge of your nose side to side. It think it's a pressure point. Good luck. I was overdue last time too. Nothing worked for me and I had to be induced.

I was "over due" with both of mine..and told my midwife that I believed that it was because I ovulated 3 weeks into my cycle not 2 weeks like most women..she said that's correct. So my babies are drooping the same amount of time they just got started a week later due to the medical field calculating starting on the 1st day of your lastbperiod instead of the day of conception (most don't know the day of conception like I have). So my point is...you don't really KNOW when your baby is "due". It's all an estimation...your baby will come out when the hormones tell it to. With my 1st I tried castro oil..NEVER again. It caused meconium in the womb. I tried red raspberry tea, black and blue cohosh...sex..nipple stimulation..I stressed so much and in the end discovered that you can safely go to 42 weeks contrary to what everyone says. As longs there's plenty of amniotic fluid. Hanging there. It won't be long.

it's true that there really isn't a lot you can do. Some people might swear by a method they used, but how can you know if it was something you did or if the baby was just ready and it was a coincidence?

My mom was telling me how she came four weeks after her due date. My grandmother tried EVERYTHING to get the baby out and nothing worked. I guess they didn't do a lot of inductions back then.

My friend did the castor oil and just got sick!
With my 2nd we had sex, went on the swings, walked & walked, went for a bumpy ride, ate spicy food, had more sex..... Nothing changed. When my water broke I didn't have contractions and needed pitocin.

I was 9 days overdue with my DD and it was torture. I tried everything everyone told me and nothing worked. Unfortunately, they come when they want to.
I will say that I did not try caster oil, though. Everyone says to try it but I asked about it and was told that it is extremely dangerous to the hormones of labor so I didn't do it. But that's just me.

I agree with most other responses here, the baby will come when he/she is good and ready. I will say that I gave the spicy food thing a shot for dinner one night, having a jalapeno on every single bite I took. My water broke at 3am and my son was born later that day at 3:04pm. I honestly don't believe that's what did it though. I gave birth 5 days early and had been dilated to a 2 and 80% effaced for almost 3wks.

Oh, and I would definitely stay away from the castor oil. My friend talked me into using it when I was sick a few years back with lots of gunk in my chest. All it did was have me stuck in the bathroom for a lot of the day. LOL

Good luck!

I heard eggplant! Don't know if it works, tho. I walked and walked and walked! But I think it didn't do anything.

sex sex sex.....no joke.....every positin, and let your hubby go hard...i don't mean to TMI, but my best friend did the crazy "monkey" sex as she calls it and went into labor 4 hours later...the semen works like pitocin....oh, and LOTS of nipple stimulation (not just boob...nipple) good luck!

Sex! Lots and lots of sex! My midwife told me that something in a mans cum helps soften the cervix witch help labor happen! I have my first baby at 39 weeks ;-) you know why. Lol.
So sex it up!... it will be at least 6 weeks till you can even think about sex again so get it while you can!

And make sure you have an orgasm..its not only the semen that does the trick ;-) ( Google it if you don't believe me haha)