# pregnancy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162 "2013-05-01T00:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/101 "2013-05-08T16:27:21Z")
I’ve heard something about some restaurant with eggplant parmesan that induces labor. Hey, I’d try it, and I’m not even pregnant 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/102 "2013-05-08T18:30:28Z")
If your husband can refrain from saying stupid things ;), then oral intake of the prostaglandins in semen can help soften and ripen the cervix and bring on labor as well as, uh, topical application. Shh…don’t tell the menfolk! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/103 "2013-05-08T19:56:18Z")
I played with my nipples to stimulate the process when I went into labor with my youngest. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/104 "2013-05-08T21:19:20Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > If your husband can refrain from saying stupid things ;), then oral intake of the prostaglandins in semen can help soften and ripen the cervix and bring on labor as well as, uh, topical application. Shh…don’t tell the menfolk! Really? Fascinating ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/105 "2013-05-08T23:29:30Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > I played with my nipples to stimulate the process when I went into labor with my youngest. I played with my nipples too. My wife didn’t seem to appreciate the effort. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/106 "2013-05-10T18:24:12Z")
I think you had the baby, April, or you’d’a been back here by now. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/107 "2013-05-10T19:23:49Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I think you had the baby, April, or you’d’a been back here by now. No, despite my best efforts not yet! I even walked around the zoo yesterday with my mom my brother and the kids for about 2 hours and went to the doctor then I’m still only one centimeter. I just been really busy at work and didn’t really have any updates I didn’t want to bother you guys with. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/108 "2013-05-10T23:35:11Z")
Oh. Well, I guess the hospital was right to send you home. Especially since they wouldn’t have allowed you to eat until you’d delivered. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/109 "2013-05-12T03:38:17Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > No, despite my best efforts not yet! I even walked around the zoo yesterday with my mom my brother and the kids for about 2 hours and went to the doctor then I’m still only one centimeter. I just been really busy at work and didn’t really have any updates I didn’t want to bother you guys with. Any day now, any day. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/110 "2013-05-12T03:40:42Z")
Yep. I am writhing with impatience ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/111 "2013-05-13T17:13:39Z")
Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. ~Rita Rudner Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. ~Jim Cole By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. ~Phyllis Diller If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. ~Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983 When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg. ~Colette The only time a women wishes she was a year older is when she’s expecting a baby. ~Mary Marsh Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ~Sam Levenson Pregnancy is a disease from which you recover in 18 years and 9 months. ~Carrie Latet ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/112 "2013-05-13T22:09:52Z")
**BOO!** Scare a contraction out of you? No? Sorry… …it will end eventually, I promise. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/113 "2013-05-13T22:18:06Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > **BOO!** > > Scare a contraction out of you? > No? > Sorry… > > ..it will end eventually, I promise. No, but I did pee a little :eek:😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/114 "2013-05-13T22:20:58Z")
Boy, Girl, or Doper? Place your bets now! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/115 "2013-05-13T22:20:59Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Yep. I am writhing with impatience [Cracked](http://www.cracked.com/article_20435_the-12-most-terrifying-things-ever-invented-babies.html) recently described a machine designed to facilitate birth. It’s a giant table that spins around at high speeds so centrifugal force causes the baby to fly out. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/116 "2013-05-13T22:21:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Boy, Girl, or Doper? Place your bets now! I am betting girl. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/117 "2013-05-13T22:22:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [Cracked](http://www.cracked.com/article_20435_the-12-most-terrifying-things-ever-invented-babies.html) recently described a machine designed to facilitate birth. It’s a giant table that spins around at high speeds so centrifugal force causes the baby to fly out. hahahahahahaah ding ding **AU**. Celeste would be a pretty strange name for a girl!! ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/118 "2013-05-13T22:24:16Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > ding ding **AU**. Celeste would be a pretty strange name for a girl!! I know someone from my elementary school named Celeste and she is a girl. ---
**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/119 "2013-05-14T00:00:03Z")
I’m guessing she meant “pretty strange name for a boy.” Otherwise, it doubly doesn’t make sense. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/120 "2013-05-14T00:11:22Z")
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