Evening Primrose with pregnancy?

[pughee]

Can you take Evening Primroise whilst trying for a child? 

[clairelb]

It’s fine to take when trying for a baby, in fact it’s meant to help by increasing the right type of cervical mucus.  However, I have heard that you should avoid it once you are pregnant.  Your best bet is to take it for the first half of your cycle and then avoid it until you know you’re pregnant or when your period arrives.

[bonitachica1]

I'm 36 weeks pregnant, and my midwife wants me to take primrose. I've heard good and bad things about this, so I did alittle researching on it. Here's alittle of what i found, i hope it helps alittle. ...There is alot of sites and info about primrose.
Evening primrose oil is a natural, mild anti-inflammatory agent that has been widely used to hasten cervical ripening and shorten labor. Researchers at the Holistic Women's HealthCare Birth Center in Wilmington, Delaware set out to test whether it really works. Their findings were published in the Journal of Nurse-Midwifery in May/June 1999. They found that evening primrose oil does nothing to shorten gestation or improve labor. Instead they found an increase of premature rupture of membranes (and increased infection risk), oxytocin augmentation, arrest of descent, and vacuum extraction. Evening primrose oil does have other valid uses, but I do not recommend it while pregnant.