walking?

I am 37 weeks 5 days and every night i go for a half hour walk not to induce labor just to help my body when I do go into labor. My question is does it actually help? What are the benefits of walking late in pregnancy to help with labor?

Quoting Katey Saewert:" I am 37 weeks 5 days and every night i go for a half hour walk not to induce labor just to help my body ... [snip!] ... do go into labor. My question is does it actually help? What are the benefits of walking late in pregnancy to help with labor?"

I don't know much about how much it helps kick start labor, however I took a 1/2 mile walk every day while I was pregnant with LO and it seemed to help labor be a little easier, and it also helped keep my hips from stiffening up and causing me lots of pain.

Walking really helped me alot. I walked with my first and my labor was only 3 hrs. With my second I was 8 cent when I got to the hospital
and I walked for a few hours the day before I had him. I also had natrual labors with them.

I walked a lot with my first and my labor was 5 hours!  

Maybe... with my last pregnancy, I walked around disneyland everyday, for the last 2 weeks I was pregnant... for at least 3 hours...

When my water finally broke, I had the baby 1 hour later  

Thanks girls. i was just hoping I wasn't doin all this walking for nothing.lol

Well nothing will happen until baby is ready and you have a few weeks to go   but I went out black friday shopping at 10 pm on thankgiving. Got home at 11 am and was in labor by 2pm.