RRL Tea Infusion Survey

[Alpaca Wacka]

Okay ladies! I'm curious to see how our experiences with the infusion of RRL tea measure up. Once you deliver post the dosage you took, your length of labor, length of previous labors, and rrl tea history.


1 cup RRL Tea (super strong and HOT)
2.5 hour labor

(DD#1) NO RRL Tea
5 hour labor

[Organicavocado]

I have no previous labors, but.. I drank about a half gallon as strong and hot as I could take it, then drank cupfuls as long as I felt like drinking (an hour or so) lukewarm. My labor was 12 hours long and I think it would have been much slower without it... it picked up and went pretty fast once I drank the infusion.

[rubyeta]

I drank about a quart of very strong tea at the beginning of labor, Once my active phase kicked in it was 1hr 45 min. total. It was sooo painful and intense that i would choose my 9 or 8 hour labor w/ds1&2 over it any day. I dont know if it was the rrl tea or if it was just the way it was. DDs labor was just over 2 hrs w/no tea, much less intense. If i have another i will not be drinking the tea.

[ChristyH]

I've been drinking at least 2 cups a day for the last few weeks, I had been drinking it before too but not as regularly.

I haven't had my baby yet but I'm going to continue to drink it until she comes and I'll let you know if it made a difference.

Not sure really what to compare it to though, my last labor was about 5hrs long and really not all that bad. He was born in less than 3 pushes and it was awesome

[carriebft]

I drank 1-2 cups of the tea for the three or so months before the birth.

I had 1 cup the night I went into labor.
Labor time: 4.5 hours

Previous Labors (no RLT during pregnancy or birth): 14 and 16 hours

[pixiepunk]

i didn't drink it at the start of labor, but have been drinking a quart of NORA tea infusion every day since week 20. (NORA = nettles, oatstraw, RRL, alfalfa)

previous labors were 8 hrs and 7 hrs, this one was 4 1/2. though i attribute some of that to baby's positioning - the first two were OT (one on the right, one on the left) and it took us a while to get them to turn during labor. this one was ROA.

i *do* attribute my great health and lack of anemia during pregnancy to the tea (i was badly anemic with #1 and #2), as well as my ease of birthing the placenta and the extremely minimal bleeding i've experienced.

[aloneinid]

I drank 1-2 cups per day for trimesters 2 and 3 and made up the hot infusion per the instructions posted in the RRL Tribe thread, drinking it as soon as my labor became active (which ended up being about 2.5 hours before the birth. It certainly didn't lessen the pain, but I can't comment on how it affected the duration of the labor. My first labor was 4.5 hours total and this labor was 17. I do tend to have minimal bleeding after my births and my uterus shrinks faster than most women, according to my midwife- maybe that can be attributed to drinking the tea throughout my pregnancies?

[momma2libby]

I drink 3 cups of RRL tea a day. I boil water, then turn it off, then let the tea leaves steep for 15 minutes. I rarely get any ctx when I drink it.

Is an infusion different? I am confused. I'm 40wks 3days and would love to know if there is a better way to do this.

[2xshy]

I drank it religiously. 3 cups a day since the second tri. and probably more in the last month of being pregnant. My labor was 28 hours. I dont know if it made my contrax stronger but 24 of those 28 hours i was contracting every 2-3 minutes.
But she was posterior and flipped herself into the right position to be born so maybe it helped with that... who knows.

[BensMom]

well, after my water had been broke for 12 hrs, I was getting a bit antsy and brewed up a strong batch of RRL tea. But labor kicked in before I had a chance to drink it. Does that count? LOL

[AZgirl2207]

I drank RRL throughout pregnancy (a quart or more a day for 3rd tri). I totally forgot to drink any once labor started. Overall, 7 hours labor, 5 minutes pushing. I had minimal blood loss and postpartum bleeding was done in 2 weeks.

First pregnancy--no tea--16 hours labor, 4 hours pushing.

[Ironica]

I drank maybe a couple of cups in the second trimester and none during labor. I labored for 39 hours (probably 24 or so "active labor"), pushed for 2-3 hours, and ended in a c-section.

Yeah, probably should have done the tea. Couldn't have hurt anyway...

[cmi]

I'm posting a bit prematurely, I guess, but I feel like I'm going to go and break the world record for longest early labor, and I've been drinking the tea every day--2 heaping tablespoons in a 1.5 pint jar for the last 3 months, 1 teaspoon in a pint jar the 2nd trimester. Last night I thought things were picking up (after a day of what I guess was very early labor), so I drank part of my pint infusion this morning. It may have picked things up a bit, but here I am still in the early phase at 6 pm (after drinking the rest around noon). I went out and got some more so I may try doing the infusion twice. Anyone know if that could be a bad idea?

[mkmama]

i faithfully drank 3 cups of loose leaf a day from about 26 weeks. My first labor was over 27 hours of very hard and intense labor.

When I was effacing and 2-3 cm i drank the infusion, and after every cup had a huge contraction. Once I fininished the infusion I got very consistent, hard contractions...3 min a part. I went from 3cm to 8cm in 3 hours i think...and my water broke about 1 hour after finishing the tea. After another couple hours I pushed my girl out.

I definetly think the RRL made a huge difference!!!!