Do you really poop on the delivery table?

[pola17]

Almost everyone I know, pooped while giving birth! It´s normal, doctors are used to this, and you don´t even notice!

I didn´t, as they performed me an enema!

 

[brandonsgirl]

oh it was hilarious... the highlight of my labor really...you will be in so much pain that seriously. it wont matter.
just wait till a few weeks later and your husband is helping you apply hemmeroid cream =) good times...

LOL. Sounds like you had a good mw that dealt with it well though. If that happened to me, I would be so embarrassed! And if the mw didn't take it well, it would make me feel 100 times worse lol.

 

[pola17]

Oh my! Hemorrhoid cream! Good old buddy!

 

[Srrme]

I didn't, but if I had I would have been mortified! I know a lot of women say you won't care, but... I would have. I would have cared only because I did not want my husband seeing that (I wouldn't have cared if the hospital staff saw it because obviously they're used to it).

 

[ilovemyhubby]

midwives have seen a LOT of poop.. and my husband has seen my poop before too... there are more important things to worry about in life...

pola: haha i have the best husband ever... he takes really good care of me..=D

 

[pola17]

midwives have seen a LOT of poop.. and my husband has seen my poop before too... there are more important things to worry about in life...

pola: haha i have the best husband ever... he takes really good care of me..=D

your nickname says it all! Hubbies kick asses!

NOW... I didn´t poop, but my husband stared down there the whole time! When they were checking how much I was dilating (I was leaking because my waters broke!), when my son was born, when they peformed the episiotomy, when they got me stitches, the next days when the OB/GYN checked on my bleeding... THAT was very, very embarassing!

NOW.. if I would have pooped, I wouldn´t have cared... I was grabbing the nurses, my husband, the OB/GYN and I was saying there won´t be any baby without an epidural.. the pain makes you forget EVERYTHING!

oh... good times!

 

[roomaloo]

I wailed 'oh no I'm going to poooooooooooooooo' but it was only small. Lol. And yes my hubby saw as I was squatting in the living room!!

 

[pola17]

But you know what´s funny??
When pushing contractions start once you´re fully dilated, it feels like you´re going to poo, and once the baby comes out, you feel the same satisfaction as when you have big poo!

It´s a nice feeling of relief!

 

[ilovemyhubby]

roomaloo: hahhaha! that is awesomeness...marriage is a beautiful thing =)

pola: giving birth was pretty much excactly like pushing the biggest poo ever... you are so right... the cervix is a sphinctor muscle just like your butt. so i guess that makes sense that it feels similar... ohh good times..

 

[CosplayMummy]

Yes, you do. I did in the birthing pool and wasn't as embarrassed as I thought I would be. Trying to push down a 9lbs 1oz baby took my mind off that. Though I knew it was coming, and my mum was like it's just the baby. No, I was right.

 

[mum2liam]

I don't think I did with my first 2 boys, but sure as hell did with my third,
I cant say I didn't care, because I did, I was mortified, I had a thrombosed pile also, so it must not have looked pleasant down there at all, my hubbie also witnessed it all, lol.
I hope I don't do it again this time, but if I do, so be it, not likely to see these people again in my life, and hubbie, well, just as well he loves me heehee
as they say, you leave your dignity at the door and pick it up on your way out lol.

 

[CosplayMummy]

I remember my midwife saying she gets a little excited when there's a bit of poo. It means you're doing it right!

 

[Attalu]

I pooped
I can't say I cared much to be honest. I did spend almost the entire pushing stage warning them it would happen though, I think I had a little much gas & air. I had no idea it had actually happened though, for some reason I felt the need to ask OH who was a little too honest!

 

[Charlee]

I did, Lo was back to back, I had been induced with a failed epidural and no pain relief. It was my biggest fear and I kept crying about it in labour and at the end I just didn't care :L

 

[Perplexed]

I was so so scared of this. I didn't want DH to be in the room purely for this reason but at the same time I didn't want to prevent him from being there at the birth of our child so I never brought it up and left the choice up to him (without talking about the poop thing lol).

I think I pooped at least 3 times (although I hadn't eaten for at least 12 hrs+ lol!). Two of those times I actually felt it. And I was actually working AGAINST my body because I felt like I needed to take a poo. Then I actually said to the midwife "I feel I need to go to the bathroom..." and she said "go for it, it'll get better then" and that's when I actually figured out how to push...and baby was out not 10-15 mins later... and that's after they had discussed the possibility of vacuum at some point since I just "couldn't" push! If only I'd known! I'd have been trying to poop from the very beginning!

And DH, lol, poor DH! Later that day he said to me, "i didn't know that could happen," and I said, "er, yeah, I wasn't sure either," and that was the end of it

 

[tinkerbelle93]

I was so so scared of this. I didn't want DH to be in the room purely for this reason but at the same time I didn't want to prevent him from being there at the birth of our child so I never brought it up and left the choice up to him (without talking about the poop thing lol).

I think I pooped at least 3 times (although I hadn't eaten for at least 12 hrs+ lol!). Two of those times I actually felt it. And I was actually working AGAINST my body because I felt like I needed to take a poo. Then I actually said to the midwife "I feel I need to go to the bathroom..." and she said "go for it, it'll get better then" and that's when I actually figured out how to push...and baby was out not 10-15 mins later... and that's after they had discussed the possibility of vacuum at some point since I just "couldn't" push! If only I'd known! I'd have been trying to poop from the very beginning!

And DH, lol, poor DH! Later that day he said to me, "i didn't know that could happen," and I said, "er, yeah, I wasn't sure either," and that was the end of it

haha I was the opposite, whenever labour/birth discussion came up when i was preganant i'd always be like 'you do know i'll probably poo? most people poo! it's all part of childbirth!' again and again, i just wanted to make sure if it did happen he would be totally expecting it, not even shocked and know that it happens to lots of people xx

 

[Perplexed]

haha I was the opposite, whenever labour/birth discussion came up when i was preganant i'd always be like 'you do know i'll probably poo? most people poo! it's all part of childbirth!' again and again, i just wanted to make sure if it did happen he would be totally expecting it, not even shocked and know that it happens to lots of people xx

That is a much better approach than mine. Wish I was brave enough! At least DH knows for next time...if there'll be one.

 

[Sharkey]

I pooped quite a bit with DD, hadn't pooped In days so there was a lot of It In the midst of G&A I shouted & laughed " I think Ive just had an accident you know"....... To this day OH & I have a giggle about It as I was dreading the poop bit ;-)

 

[momma 2 be]

I've heard that some do and some don't. Hopefully I am one of them that don't

 

[LockandKey]

I did while pushing with my son and I didn't even care. While you are in the middle of pushing for your life to get that baby out, the fear of going #2 and being embarrassed about it is the last thing on your mind, and you have to figure, the delivery nurses, and doctors/midwives who've been there a while probably see it on a daily basis.