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

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!!!

Great product. It wasn’t hard to take, and it didn’t have a bad taste. I only pushed for less than 10 minutes with my first baby, so I’d say it worked!

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.

My first child was I induced a few days early due to leak in water. Second child I use 5W and had a fast labor, but very uncomfortable. Third child I decided to try Dr.Christopher's prenatal formula since it was easy to order on Amazon. I must say, I credit my fast and easy labor to this herbal prep. The only thing that was frustrating, was the early on-and-off labor contractions (a little stronger than the Braxton hicks I had for several weeks) that came 3 days before birth, creating excitement and the disappointment when nothing happened. My second came the day i started having serious contractions. Well, the few days of frustration was worth it because I checked into the hospital 6:40, pretty comfortable with building contractions 7 min apart. Checked by a nurse and was dilated to 5cm. I had been 2/3 cm for two weeks 75/80% effaced. An hour and a half later, kneeling comfortably on a towel in the shower, leaning over a labor ball with my husband holding a shower head spraying hot water on my lower back, I was surprised to learn I was dilated to an 8!!! I was completely shocked because i was still comfortable in the labor.. Chatting with the nurse an my husband. I decided to labor in the shower maybe 20-30 more minutes before deciding to dry off so I wouldn't be cold during the pushing stage. Dried off, got to the bed, on hands and knees for 2 contractions and told the nurse I felt baby coming! Turned on my side, dr checked me I had a little lip, broke my water, was complete and 3 pushes later it was over!! 9:40 (3hours total) we had our 3rd baby!! I seriously felt immediately after that I could have another if i only had 30 minutes of "intense" labor. Didn't feel the "labor pains" until was on the bed ready to push! I have recommended this to my friends with normal low-risk pregnancies, and would recommend to all moms wanting to have a better, shorter labor!! Had my son on his due date exactly 40 weeks. I don't think this will induce you, just strengthen uterus and make it all around easier. I took as directed, maybe skipped a few days accidentally early on. Plan to use this with my next baby!! Wouldn't have a 4th without this herb!!

Used this product for my 4th labor. All my labors have been home births including this one. I always go past 40 weeks and always have 16 to 38 hour labors. I used this for my last labor. I started having irregular contractions everyday starting at 40 weeks for 5 days last most of day and night. Midwife said it was prodromal labor. Never had this with other labors. Read a prior review that this product can cause that, they were right. Finally went into labor at 40w 5d. Started labor at 7pm with regular contractions not painful. Started to get a bit painful at midnight. Was 7cm dilated at 2 am with tolerable contractions. Gave birth at 6 am. The last 2 hours of labor were excruciating contractions. But most of the labor was great tolerable. I am usually in excruciating labor for way way longer with my prior labors. I will definitely use this again if I decide to have any more kids.