Still No News

Third day overdue and still no action on the labour front. Patty is getting lots of sympathy from strangers, and interestingly a lot of advice about how to jump-start labour. Here are a few:

• Eat lots of raspberries
  
• Drink lots of ice water
  
• Walk up stairs
  
• Walk down stairs
• Press between your thumb and your index finger
• Watermelon
  
• Drink beer (hey why doesn't Patty take up smoking while she's at it)
• Walk with one foot on the curb and one foot off
• Go on a hike
• Make love (very surreal when an absolute stranger tells you to go do this)
  
• Eat spicy foods
  
• Take Cod Liver oil (what is this - 1935?)

So it's obvious no one knows what they're talking about. I suspect what happens is someone tries one of these "remedies" just when they were about to go into labour anyways. So it's pure coincidence, although #10 is a technique we are practicing regularly.