So...pineapple...

[Asher]

someone said you need to eat the entire inside including the middle. Is it this nasty hard and not very yummy tasting stuff that is supposed to do the trick? If so, maybe that's why the twenty million pineapples I ate when overdue with my last didn't work!

Side note, DD (almost 4) is LOVING the pineapple. I told her when she was in my tummy, I ate it a lot, too so maybe that's why. She just looks at me crazy and says "Okay...when I finish this bowl, can I have some more?"

[SunCB]

I have eaten 3.5 pineapples already and 3 of them were in 4 days!! I do not eat the core though but if someone says that is the part you need to eat maybe I will go get myself another to try!

[j_p_i]

Crap... I just bought a big thing of fresh pineapple, already chunked up so I wouldn't have to cut it! So no core in there. I planned on eating the whole thing this afternoon. I suppose I still will, just in case!

[twins+1]

A friend of mine ate a pineapple - not the middle - and her water broke the next morning. WHo knows if it worked, but she didn't eat the middle.

[Ldavis24]

so I hate absolutely hate the texture of pineapple for some reason but love the flavor. I'm guessing fresh pineapple juice wouldn't do anything for me then?

Whatever, I'm going to drink some anyway, it is so refreshing in your mouth!

[snowmom5]

(barging from July) You may want to google this to be certain, but I'm pretty sure that the active substance in pineapple core re: bringing on labor, bromelain, is available as an oral supplement from vitamin stores, etc. I don't know if it's as effective, but it sure beats eating the core. Or several cores. (Pineapple is also often consumed by infertility patients during the two week wait, which is why I'm remembering about the supplements.) Good luck!!

[JD5351]

I just bought a big huge pineapple, so glad to see this thread..lol

I will be playing with google today...I'll eat the spiky outside, if it will just help me out a LITTLE bit..

My superstrength cervix is still not even attempting to dilate even just a little bitty bit.

[j_p_i]

I just ate half my tub of fresh pineapple chunks, and now I feel wicked crampy and have had an increase in the minor ctxs I've been having. No idea if these are related, but I plan on eating the rest of it after dinner.

[Asher]

Originally Posted by JD5351

I will be playing with google today...I'll eat the spiky outside, if it will just help me out a LITTLE bit..

Okay, I think that would be painful...going in AND coming out!

[JD5351]

Originally Posted by Asher

Okay, I think that would be painful...going in AND coming out!

LOL

Yeah, I bet it would be.

I read that the bromelain is in the stem on one site. On another it says it's in the core..On another it says it's throughout the entire pineapple...And on another it said I would need to eat like 8 pineapples to do anything.

So I'm thinking...We all need to charter a plane to Oahu, go take over the Dole Pineapple fields, and feast on pineapples, pineapple cores, and stems until we get these stubborn babies out.

[ScootchsMom]

Well, I just ate another half of a pineapple, saving the other half for tomorrow. No stem or core though, I just can't bring myself to that point yet, lol.

Hopefully all of this pineapple will do one of us some good.

[SunCB]

Just finished the 4th pineapple. I suck on the core part to get the good stuff off of it that I cut off. Still nothing here. I hope I do not make myself sick of pineapple bc I do like eating it. Fell in love with it when I made Taffy Apple Salad.

[cmoma]

You guys are cracking me up with the pineapple. I actually like the core Yes I know I'm weird!

Maybe I'll head out and get some after dinner.

[mynameisMom]

Originally Posted by JD5351

LOL
So I'm thinking...We all need to charter a plane to Oahu, go take over the Dole Pineapple fields, and feast on pineapples, pineapple cores, and stems until we get these stubborn babies out.

Cracking up at the image of all of us preggos munching pineapple in a field in Hawaii!

[scrappingmom]

The part of the pineapple used to make the suppliments is the core, i think it is there thruout the pineapple just concentrated in the core ... plus getting helth benefits from the "garbage" is always a good thing if possible That i know for a fact.... i dont "like " it, but if it would get baby out.. then i'm sending DH to the store! lol. I've eaten a couple pineapples with no luck but only ate the "good" part, i scraped the core a bit but not that much. I love pineapple though so i dont mind eating a bunch other than teh cost!!!

[Asher]

Well, I was going to finish the rest tonight (have a midwife appt. tomorrow), but don't think the heartburn would be worth it so going to wait and eat it tomorrow afternoon.

[RomanGoddess]

Well, I ate a whole pineapple, core included, and went into labour at 38 weeks 6 days, but my baby was definitely "cooked" already at that point - he had long fingernails, no vernix, weighed 9 lbs 4 ounces...