Making Babies with Lunchtime Live
Jun 24, 2026 · 11 min · 9 segments
Every Wednesday afternoon, we’ll be talking Making Babies. Andrea will be joined by Professor Shane Higgins, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, to cover every area of trying to have a baby…
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In fact, pregnancy itself is surrounded by a lot of old wives' tales, but, um, a, labor and delivery in particular, and there's hardly a day or a week goes by that I'm not asked about things like curb, uh, stepping or, um, spicy foods or cod liver oil and all of that.
Well, what, what myths do people have, I suppose, with labor, firstly? What are those kind of misconceptions you have to?
Oh, I, I, well, okay, there's, there's, there's ones that are really, have no foundation, and they're the kind of things that might start labor off, and dates, all of that.
Now, when it comes to, uh, the application of evidence, we, we kind of look at the quality of the evidence that supports, uh, the use or not use of something, and we try to use evidence-based practice in, in all disciplines of medicine.
This doesn't work," and a lot of what patients will have heard from friends, relatives about these things, there is no scientific evidence to support them.
And a lot of people think that if you get your bowel moving, and that's what these things do, they increase the transit time of the gut, that it's going to have a knock-on effect on the uterus and make it, uh, make you go into labor.
I think that, that it has a place in Western medicine, uh, despite its origins, and I think acupuncture could have a place.
Um, a lot of patients now, in fact, the majority of patients now do, uh, colostrum harvesting from about 37 weeks.
And, and harvesting the colostrum releases a hormone called oxytocin, which is the primary hormone that causes your uterus to contract.
So if you're close to going into labor and you do either of those two things, acupuncture, colostrum harvesting from 37 weeks, then it may have a positive knock-on effect on you going into labor.
In fact, pregnancy itself is surrounded by a lot of old wives' tales, but, um, a, labor and delivery in particular, and there's hardly a day or a week goes by that I'm not asked about things like curb, uh, stepping or, um, spicy foods or cod liver oil and all of that.
Well, what, what myths do people have, I suppose, with labor, firstly? What are those kind of misconceptions you have to?
Oh, I, I, well, okay, there's, there's, there's ones that are really, have no foundation, and they're the kind of things that might start labor off, and dates, all of that.
Now, when it comes to, uh, the application of evidence, we, we kind of look at the quality of the evidence that supports, uh, the use or not use of something, and we try to use evidence-based practice in, in all disciplines of medicine.
This doesn't work," and a lot of what patients will have heard from friends, relatives about these things, there is no scientific evidence to support them.
And a lot of people think that if you get your bowel moving, and that's what these things do, they increase the transit time of the gut, that it's going to have a knock-on effect on the uterus and make it, uh, make you go into labor.
I think that, that it has a place in Western medicine, uh, despite its origins, and I think acupuncture could have a place.
Um, a lot of patients now, in fact, the majority of patients now do, uh, colostrum harvesting from about 37 weeks.
And, and harvesting the colostrum releases a hormone called oxytocin, which is the primary hormone that causes your uterus to contract.
So if you're close to going into labor and you do either of those two things, acupuncture, colostrum harvesting from 37 weeks, then it may have a positive knock-on effect on you going into labor.
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