So, this 'maternity salad' apparently helps kick-start labour

Mums-to-be are so obsessed with this restaurant's 'maternity salad' that they are now ordering it online.

So what's all the fuss?

Well, apparently the salad helps to bring on labour for overdue mums, thanks to its "top secret dressing".

 

How often can I come back and eat this salad @caioti_pizza? #pregnancy #makeithappen 

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According to Today, people have been flocking to the Caioti Pizza Café in California for nearly 30 years, after one overdue mum-to-be ate the salad and went into labour shortly after. 28 years ago.

 

5 days past due date so trying everything under the sun! Famous labor inducing salad 

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“This isn’t something we set out to do — a lady came in 28 years ago who was past due and ate the salad, then felt contractions and went into labour. From there, the salad’s popularity just kept increasing,” café owner Carrie LaDou told TODAY.

 

THE SALAD!! For over 25 years this salad has claimed to help women go into labor! "The" Salad has been eaten…now we wait

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Yes, for nearly three decades, thanks to this one lady, between five and 20 pregnant women turn up to order the salad daily.

So WHAT is in it?

Well, according to Carrie, the salad contains watercress, walnuts, pasteurised gorgonzola cheese and romaine lettuce – and a top secret dressing.

 

: @mikafalciola

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“We’re not saying it’s the dressing — we don’t know what it is,” Carrie says.

“I always tell them, ‘If you’re here to have a baby, you need to have the salad as it’s meant to be.”

 

Eating "the THE salad" aka the labor inducing salad from Caioti Cafe- yes this is an actual thing! Desperate times call for desperate measures. Next up- snorting wasabi! Totally kidding. Unless you think it will work …Ok what's the craziest/weirdest/best thing you've heard of to induce labor!?!

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Hmmm, whether it actually brings on labour or not, when baba is reluctant to come out, us mums will try just about anything!