Pregnancy has many stages – excitement, nausea, excitement, terror, discomfort and more excitement.
Then there's the final stage: please, please - just come out.

See this mom's gallery of 9 natural ways to induce birth.
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(Joanne Hart, Health24, April 2011)
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