Evening Primrose Oil pills? How do they help induce labor?

I've heard it can be taken to induce labor, but what exactly does it do?

Evening Primrose Oil pills? How do they help induce labor?
From my experience, they strip your membranes. It really works too. I did it for less than a week and I was in labor. One of my friends did the same, and she was right in there in no time.
Reply:My midwife told me to take them. I had to take 2 (500mg) pills a day and insert one vaginally at night. All it does is helps soften the cervix. I took them for 3 weeks and still had my baby overdue one week so I do not think they work to induce labor.
Reply:"Oral evening primrose oil: its effect on length of pregnancy and selected intrapartum outcomes in low-risk nulliparous women.





Findings suggest that the oral administration of evening primrose oil from the 37th gestational week until birth does not shorten gestation or decrease the overall length of labor. Further, the use of orally administered evening primrose oil may be associated with an increase in the incidence of prolonged rupture of membranes, oxytocin augmentation, arrest of descent, and vacuum extraction."





http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez...
Reply:STAY AWAY from these Pills!!! They can harm the baby seriously. Oh-and they don't help induce your labor...your baby will come when it's ready!
Reply:Try every myth you want.. your body will go when it's ready. I know you HATE to hear that b/c I hated it, but.. it will. Just walk alot.. if anything.
Reply:It doesn't induce labor- it softens the cervix.