Nine months into your pregnancy and well beyond your due date, but no sign of the baby arriving. This can leave an expecting mother feeling restless, anxious and not to mention in the least, irritable. The excess weight you are carrying becomes unbearable and you can’t wait anymore. Your back hurts, you can’t stand for a long time, and you keep going to the bathroom every few minutes. You can’t wait anymore and will do anything to speed up the process.

Try a few of these simple tips to help you. Of course these are to be tried only after you’ve crossed your due date and after consulting with your doctor. If the doctor recommends otherwise, please be patient, you have already waited nine months! A few more weeks is nothing compared to that. You only want to do what’s best for you and your baby and taking the doctor’s advice is the most sensible thing to do.

Child birth is a natural process right from conception till the end and its best to keep it that way. Some of the below mentioned tips can help you if the doctor says it’s ok to do.

A simple walk or a slow paced walk in the park with your partner can actually help you. This is an activity which can release positive happy hormones in your body. Walking also helps stimulate contractions. The upright position also helps in pushing the baby down and when you walk the gravitational pull has some kind of effect on pulling the uterus. This is one of the main reasons why in the first trimester, if the uterus is weak, doctors advice complete bed rest.

Foods with extra spice have been proven to induce labor in the past. Many mothers have said that this trick helped them. Consult a professional massage therapist who specializes in acupressure types of massages and stimulate the correct points to induce labor. The weirdest of them all, sex! Yes, the thing that got it started can also end it. Funny? But this too has proven to help induce labor. Fruits like pineapple also help induce labor.

Please keep in mind, this is child birth which needs to be dealt with in a mature adult manner, it’s not child’s play and all medical precautions and advice need to be considered.