Christopher's Original Formulas Birth-Prep Capsules 100 ct - Herbal Blend for Expectant Mothers - Supports Natural Preparation for Childbirth

I don’t know what worked, because I was doing several things. But had a smooth relatively quick birth. Didn’t feel bad or had any side effects

I am going to update this as I progress. I am 39 weeks and 2 days with my 5th baby. I've been taking Birth Prep since week 34, as my midwife suggested. I have had challenging and long labors with my last two babies. I am hoping for an easier one with baby 5.I will say these pills are making me feel awful. I hope they work during labor and this baby comes out easy. I am on my second bottle and after taking the pills an hour later I have intense menstral like cramping and strong nausea that lasts for several hours. It's miserable. I've never experienced this before and it happens like clock work after I take my pills. I'm taking two in the morning and two at night. This has not happened until the last two weeks. I hope it's shaving time off. I will update after I give birth to let you know how my labor went!!Ok *UPDATE*These pills are amazing and I'm so glad I took them even though they made me feel awful for weeks!!! It helps you SO MUCH in labor. I will say they don't make you pop early but they help your cervix be ready and more importantly they help TONE YOUR UTERUS! I just gave birth at 42 weeks. This is my 5th baby, homebirth/natural birth. This is the first baby I took these with after having 63, 24 hour long miserable labors. With this one I had to drink Caster oil which I never have done before, I've never done any interventions before but I got diagnosed with late on set polyhydramminos. At 42 weeks my fluid levels were dangerously high and we needed to get he baby out quickly. I did not want to be risked out of care and Homebirth. These pills made my contractions totally bearable until the end. It made my cervix soft and ready and my uterus was so strong and toned I was able to work with my contractions in a way I never have been able to before! It was incredible how ready my body was for birth and I truly believe that's what these pills do, and in turn when your labor starts everything is ready to go, primed and toned! The weeks of cramping I personally experienced was doing a good work at exercising my body for labor. It was worth that discomfort!!! I was at a high risk for post partum hemorrhage because of my condition and I'm glad I'd been taking these pills to strengthen my uterus and birthing everything! After having 4 difficult labors with all my other children, this one was a dream. It was so different am manageable!!! I am so thankful I took these and if I ever have any more kids I will take these every time!!!

I took one pill daily starting at 34 weeks (then 2 daily at 35-37 weeks and the alternated 3 every other day and 2 pills on the other days from 38 weeks on). I never had any adverse side effects and did fairly extensive research in the ingredients since I know there are a couple of ingredients that are deemed questionable with safety. From what I understand, the amount of those ingredients in this formula is totally safe as long as you don’t take too much. My labor was effective and fast. I absolutely felt like my uterus was toned and ready for this birth. This was my 3rd baby and 2nd vaginal birth, and I also ate dates and drank red raspberry leaf tea and did evening primrose oil sparingly, so I don’t know how much credit to give to this formula alone, but I labored for about 5 hours total and only had about an hour and a half of really intense labor. Contractions were easily manageable until I dilated to an 8, at which point they really picked up, but by then it was only another hour until my baby was out! Anyway, it was worth trying for me and I did have a great labor experience.

I took as directed on the bottle. Mines stated to start taking 1 pill starting at 36 weeks for a week and then 2 per day after that. No more than 2 per day. All I can say is Thank You to the makers of this stuff. It might not work for everyone but it worked for me. My first child was posterior and my labor was 16 hours total but it was a hard painful labor. I pushed for about 4 to 5 hours!! I just delivered my baby boy today, home birth, no meds and the total time for labor and delivery was 3 hours!! No joke! I had strong braxton like contractions around 12:40am, then I noticed they werent going away so I decided to use the contraction counter to see what that would say. Each contraction got stronger. The app I used said that I started my contractions already at 2 min apart. Me and my midwife thought I was probably doing something wrong with the app but she came to my house anyway. So contractions started at 12:45am, Midwife shows up at around 2:30am to tell me I was already 9cm dialated!! Baby was born at 4am!!😆 Best birth EVER! The labor was still labor and the contractions were painful but the time in pain is what made it wonderful. Instead of 12 hours of excruating pain, it was only 2hrs!! I will take it. Now I dont know if it was also quicker because its my 2nd child but I think adding this made it even better. I noticed that my braxton hicks were very strong since taking it, not painful just strong and tight! Which probably prepped my uterus to have nice, strong, and effective contractions! I am definitely going to recommend this to my friends and will be using this for all future births😁

These don't taste the best, but being a bunch of dries herbs I wouldn't expect it. However, they were very potent and helped in my birthing journey.

I normally labor 24 plus hours. This cut it down to 12. Delivery was quicker and easier.

It’s always hard to say if this is what made the difference because there are so many things that contribute, but I took this and my labor was less than 5 hours. I will be purchasing again for future pregnancies.