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To be upset that I just shat myself?

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HodgePodge23 · 08/02/2016 20:56

I've got a stomach bug and thought I needed to fart. I didn't. My partner thinks I'm silly for being upset. Aibu to feel a bit sad that my untarnished record of not crapping myself since I was a kid has been broken? And my favorite knickers are shitty.

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ktt512 · 08/02/2016 22:50

LuluJakey1 - I guarantee something like that will happen to me! Your post made my evening!!

In fact, this whole thread has made my evening, I'm so sorry that you had to go through that OP and I hope you feel better soon! If my OH pooped himself for any reason (not going to lie i'd probably laugh a little, to myself, in sympathy and solidarity) I'd give him a big cuddle and go out for some Imodium! I hope your OH is looking after you

But really, it happens to literally everyone, even if they refuse to admit it

Christinayangstwistedsista · 08/02/2016 22:50

I guess I just don't have a shitty sense of humour ( thankfully)

usual · 08/02/2016 22:53

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Dawndonnaagain · 08/02/2016 22:54

op hope you feel better soon.
People who are having a go, why. I shit myself on a fairly regular basis unfortunately. I never leave the house without spare underwear and without being aware of where lavatories are and will be. Managed it twice in sainsburys last week! I however, have a disability, you all going to have a go at me?

IThoughtItWasAFart · 08/02/2016 22:55

It happens to the best of us.....

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Christinayangstwistedsista · 08/02/2016 22:59

My dh had a stoma, I have never felt the need to publicise the details over mn

MadeMan · 08/02/2016 22:59

"I had to finish with a boyfriend in college who proudly told me that he'd 'hit sock' when he squeezed out a sneaky one."

I've not heard it called that before; touching cloth perhaps. Although I have known people readily admit to using one of their socks if caught short for a number 2 whilst out and about around town.

Brummiegirl15 · 08/02/2016 22:59

To be fair I'd not long given birth to a 6 wk early premature baby, was massively hormonal and was literally howling at the littlest thing.

DP was lovely and very understanding and went off to clean it up which made me sob and howl even more

Was completely off my rocker with the hormones.

I know it's normal, but I was still mortified that I'd wet myself

cakedup · 08/02/2016 23:00

I am sure I didn't poo during childbirth. Although I did spend most of the time actually on the toilet - refusing to move. Midwife had to coax me to move to the bed saying "you don't want baby to land in the toilet, do you?" I just begged her to let me stay on the toilet, claiming I felt safe there. But no recollection of pooing whatsoever.

I really don't get why people so offended by poo on this thread??? Why aren't we allowed to discuss it like every other normal bodily function gets discussed on here? Weird.

Don't worry OP, you're ill, nothing to be upset about. I bet loads of people have had poo accidents when they're ill. And don't wear your fave knickers when you're ill, that's bonkers.

Lj8893 · 08/02/2016 23:03

In childbirth the babies head rolls over the rectum and the anus dilates. If there's anything in your rectum it's going to come out, but it's completely normal and very common. There's no need for anyone to be ashamed that they pooed in childbirth!

I don't understand why poo can be such a taboo subject, but then I spend most my life cleaning up others poo so perhaps I'm immune!

TheoriginalLEM · 08/02/2016 23:05

poo is just food really, when you stop to think about it. Food that you didn't need/use.

I honedtly don't know why people are so sensitive about it.

saying that i would still be mortified.

austenozzy · 08/02/2016 23:07

Hope you're better soon op. Ignore the bosom hoiking, hopefully some more embarrassing poo stories will be along soon to cheer you up and make at least some of us chuckle.

HaveIGotAClue · 08/02/2016 23:07

It is somewhat disconcerting to be fair. Never again will you be able to nonchalantly pass a silent one. The fear of the follow-through lingers with you for a life-time. I feel your pain.

GloGirl · 08/02/2016 23:10

I hasn't pooed for almost a week before I had DS1.

I gave birth and asked my midwife if I'd had a poo during labour.

"Don't worry about it dear, perfectly natural..."
"No, I've not pooed in a long time, I need to know."

Turned out I hadn't. And it turns out a forceps birth, episiotomy, a separate grade 2 tear and iron tablets really really don't work very well with a 2 week old poo.

I don't actually know why I didn't ask anyone for help but I didn't think there was anything anyone could do. Oh dear.

MadeMan · 08/02/2016 23:17

"Never again will you be able to nonchalantly pass a silent one."

Travelling on a crowded commuter train will have lost its mischievous appeal.

ValiantMouse · 08/02/2016 23:22

If you're worried about staining, use lots of cold water first on your pants. Hot water will set the stain and you'll never get it out.

keriku · 08/02/2016 23:27

My grandad called that a splashfart!

bbpp · 08/02/2016 23:28

I've done an accidental poo. Woke up very ill, leant over the side of the bed to vomit and...

I also have a pretty horrendous story from when I was 16 and at a festival. This even makes me tut so I imagine many readers will pass out upon reading. My friend managed to drink nearly a full crate of cider to herself, half-passed out and demanded I take her to the toilets (hole in the floor) as she'd evidently had a dodgy festival belly and erm, had an accident. I was trying to direct her stood at the door and I must have embarrassed her, and she pushed my face to make me go away... and there was shit on her finger.

Very disgusting and shameful, I am well aware everybody. Funny though.

TheCraicDealer · 08/02/2016 23:40

I only judge poo stories when the poo-er was drunk. You shouldn't be getting yourself into that state. Under any other circumstance (apart from the dinner table) poo-stories are fair game and, if well told, extremely amusing. Part of what makes the illness ones so funny is empathising with the person's realisation of, "I think I'm going to shit myself...Yes, I'm going to shit myself....[whispers] I've just shit myself". I wouldn't tell my work colleagues but good mates and randoms on the internet? Eh, yeah!

My sister's fiancé once said in front of our group of friends, "Poo stories are never funny". His card was marked from that day.

liz70 · 08/02/2016 23:46

What a shite thread. (sorry.)

FTR, the only time since my age reached double figures that I have cacked myself was when simultaneously squeezing my DDs out of my FFB. I think that can be excused.

BunnyTyler · 09/02/2016 00:08

I'm another with IBD, it's horrid when things like that happen so I am fully sympathetic.
Hope you feel better soon OP

tazzle22 · 09/02/2016 00:09

I find this thread quite sad ... that incontinence ( even a one off due to illness ) is seen as disgusting, not to be talked about or sympathised with apart from a few.... and even funny !

If any other aspect of disability or health concern was laughed at or called disgusting everyone would be up in arms and mumsnet team down on it like a ton of bricks.

Its the last tabooo...people can come on here and talk about any aspect of sex and swear till the cows come home and no one blinks an eye ....but no one can be upset or want support because of a poo accident without being ridiculed !

liz70 · 09/02/2016 00:14

Oh, fgs, tazz - did you actually read the trolltastic OP?

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HodgePodge23 · 09/02/2016 00:17

I feel so sick! Thank you to those who provided me with a distraction. This is the worst stomach bug I've ever had. This is going to be a long night..

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