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Time of India
22-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Unique Starbucks drink goes viral for inducing labour in moms-to-be: Is it really true?
Image credits: X/@Block37Shops Over the years, various adjectives have been attached to a cup of Starbucks drinks. From refreshing and flavourful to expensive and magical, Starbucks is popular for its variety of flavours and drinks. However, now a new quality of a Starbucks drink is coming to the limelight as pregnant moms-to-be are drinking it to apparently induce labour. Yes, you read that right. In an agitation to get things moving and leaving, pregnant moms tend to try a multitude of hacks and drinking a Starbucks drink is a new and trending one of them. The allegedly miraculous drink is the Iced passion tango tea or the Passion tango tea lemonade which they hope is going to send them to the hospital to finally give birth. Lindsey Hull, a 38-week-pregnant woman took to TikTok to share a video of ordering the "labour-inducing drink", writing, "Starbucks Labor Inducing Drink….fingers crossed this ridiculous myth actually works😂 but regardless you have to try this…IT'S SO GOOD. I will be back for this again and again!!!" Hull also added that she is sure it doesn't actually work but at this point, she is willing to try literally anything. This trend reminds us of the 2023 trend where pregnant moms were chugging venti passion tea lemonade with four pumps of raspberry syrup and labelling it as the 'Starbucks Pregnancy Drink.' However, for a woman Mika Laidler, the drink did work as 8 hours later she went into labour and gave birth. Can Starbucks' Iced passion tango tea really induce labour? Image credits: X/@John_Graham19 While moms might be spending bucks on an Iced passion tango tea to finally meet their child, experts suggest it's a futile effort. Shannon Smith, M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn told Baby Center that at term everyone has contractions and increased discharge at some point, so it is normal for women to correlate that with drinking the Starbucks drink. "There's no magic to it" added Rebecca Amaru, M.D. and board-certified ob-gyn. The ingredients in the iced passion tango tea are water, hibiscus flowers, citric acid, cinnamon, apple, liquorice root, lemongrass, lemon juice, sugar, and fruit juice extracts which are all safe for pregnant women. However, those expecting must be careful with the drink's sugar content and herbs. According to Healthline, pregnant moms can try light exercise, acupuncture, physical intimacy and eating dates to get the baby moving.
New York Post
22-05-2025
- Health
- New York Post
Moms-to-be are sipping this weird Starbucks drink to induce labor — experts say it's ridiculous
These pregnant mamas are eager to get things moving and grooving. There is a long list of bizarre hacks that pregnant women will try to induce labor — but this new one has experts scratching their heads. Soon-to-be moms on social media are hitting up their local Starbucks to specifically order the iced passion tango tea — or the passion tango tea lemonade — in the hopes of sending them to the hospital to give birth. Advertisement One desperate 38-week pregnant woman, Lindsey Hull, posted a TikTok video eagerly ordering the viral 'labor-inducing' drink. 'I'm sure it doesn't actually work,' she said in the video that has over 350,000 views. 'But I'm willing to try literally anything.' Advertisement The million-dollar question is, can a Starbucks iced drink actually help push a baby out? Desperate moms-to-be will try anything to get their baby out by the end of their term. Sergey Novikov – Some moms would say yes. Back in 2023, mommies-to-be were chugging venti passion tea lemonade with four pumps of raspberry syrup. Advertisement 'When you're 39 weeks [and] four days with no signs of labor so you get the Starbucks 'Pregnancy Drink' and hope for the best,' a very pregnant mom of four Mika Laidler, wrote in the caption of her trending TikTok video. Luckily for Laidler, her version of the labor-inducing concoction actually worked. 'Update: Drank the 'Pregnancy Drink' from Starbucks, and 8 hours later [I] gave birth at 39 weeks and four days,' she said in another TikTok video posted soon after she gave birth. Advertisement According to experts — this timing is just coincidental. 'At term, everyone should start having contractions and notice increased discharge at some point, so of course some women will correlate that with drinking this Starbucks drink,' Shannon Smith, M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn and partner at Brigham Faulkner Ob/Gyn Associates in Boston, Massachusetts, told Baby Center. 'I think that is natural bias.' Sadly for those women who ran to order the drink after watching Hull's or Laidler's videos — 'There's no magic to it,' Rebecca Amaru, M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn in private practice at Brasner, Blumberg & Amaru in New York City also told Baby Center. The ingredients in the iced passion tango tea drink — water, hibiscus flowers, citric acid, natural flavors, cinnamon, apple, licorice root, lemongrass and fruit juice extract, lemon juice, sugar, and lemon oil for the lemonade version — are generally safe for pregnant women. The iced drink is supposedly tasty — but that doesn't mean it can actually help induce labor. Starbucks However, those expecting have to be careful of the drink's high sugar content and its herbs. Advertisement 'For many herbs – including these two [hibiscus and licorice root] we either lack data entirely or have very limited information about their safety in pregnancy,' Ryann Kipping, R.D.N., owner and founder of The Prenatal Nutritionist, told Baby Center. If pregnant women want to naturally induce labor — they can skip the Starbucks drive-thru and instead opt for light exercise, acupuncture, sex and snack on dates to get things moving and grooving, according to Healthline.
