Starbucks Labor Drink: Should You Buy the Viral Tea?

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are swearing by this Labor Drink.“Drank the ‘pregnancy ’ from Starbucks and eight hours later gave birth at 39 weeks and four days,” said one over a video of herself sipping from one of those coveted huge water jugs in a .The trend has been spreading like wildfire because, well, the third trimester is rough and many moms-to-be want it to end as soon as possible (and to meet their new babies, of course).

The app is filled with videos from people filming themselves ordering and drinking the tea, usually with commentary along the lines of, “Please let this work.”One such mom, Coty Kenneth, filmed her video trying the Starbucks Labor Drink when she was 38 weeks pregnant with her second child.“Supposedly you drink one and it puts you into labor,” she said. “I don’t believe it…but I’ll try anything.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The recipe for the tea varies slightly, but it starts with coffee purveyor’s Passion Tango tea and lemonade.

Most people add a pineapple base and four pumps of pure cane sugar syrup; some add four pumps of raspberry syrup instead.As is the case with many wellness trends on TikTok, the Starbucks Labor Tea is mostly a repackaging of common natural tricks.

For instance, red raspberry leaf tea has long been considered—anecdotally, that is—to be helpful in preparing the body for labor.But as family physician , chair of medical affairs at the wellness company Shaklee, tells Glamour, even if that benefit were clinically proven, you’re unlikely to get much from the TikTok version.“This ‘labor tea’ is based upon using raspberry leaf tea during the last trimester of pregnancy to help women have a shorter labor with less needed medical interventions, including C-sections,” she says. “But, as.