Stupid Q! but my brain is thinking it!

[Dozeyland]

If you're constipated upto and when you do go into labour,
Are you more likely to poo in labour? Not that
Its anything to worry about. I just wondered.

Not got a clue :o

If you have poo in ypu and you go into labour that poo will come out.

The baby coming out squashes the bowels. It would have to be a massive kryptonite poo to stop a baby coming down the birth canal.

Erm everyone poos in labour i'm afraid - constipated or not!!

With DD I didn't poo.

I went to poo the morning of the day I had her though. I didn't mean it
to sound silly. And I know that a poo would't stop a baby coming out!

I just wondered if constipation makes any difference

I didn't but it felt like it. I was more scared of DH seeing me poo than anything else.

If I had a poo with any of mine I didnt notice and nobody told me. So as far as I am concerned I didnt.

I think they just whip it away anyway.

I never pooed with any of mine either, and i'm hoping i won't with DC5..

I could have sworn I pooed having ds4 but the midwife said I didn't (although I left going to the hospital insanely late, only just made it to the delivery room and only needed to push twice).

However dh said I pooed when I had my emcs so if it's going to come it's going to come!

Dozy I was only being silly about the kryptonite poo

and it is a fair question, MWs always insist your bowels will open in labour at some point, but if you are constipated it might be more uncomfortable

Yeah i think thats what i mean Honeydragon, if it would make it more uncomfortable?

Yeah I suppose having a poo isnt anything compared to that feeling when baby is out, so I thank my lucky stars i didnt poo, wish i dont this time, but hey ho. if it happens then its tough luck! lol

:) the thoughts and wonders in pregnancy ay, even when you have done it once before!

I pooed with both mine and am expecting to this time too, the 2nd time I was pushing and kept worrying out loud that I was pooing, the midwife kept saying I wasn't but I know she was just saying it to make me feel better cos I could smell it and I could feel the wiping away going on as well...LOL, sorry for tmi but thats the way it happened, I did find it made me feel better the midwife saying I wasn't though due to the very fact that I knew she was trying to be so lovely,which meant also that the pooing didn't matter, which I thought it did at the time..of course now I realise most women poo during labour so I don't mind anymore..we just can't help it.

I Pooed...I know this because my Ex announced it very loudly .' She's pooing, she's pooing !' The lovely mid wife just whisked it away and told Ex not to be so childish!

Is that why he's now 'Ex' doin? I would have been so

That and many other reasons Sparkling

doin.

It was a sign of things to come

I pooed with ds1, midwife whipped it away in a flash and exdh didnt even notice. I smelled it though, so I knew.

Ds2 was a water birth and when i pooed my lovely dp fished it out the water with that grey cardboard wee-bowl thing. He winked at the midwife and hid it from view. He told me a few weeks later.

Can you still have an enema in labour?

I did, because it was the norm then - not at all uncomfortable, and a relief as I'd been constipated during pregnancy.

And I didn't have to worry about pooing (which I didn't).

Whats an emema? :s

I think thats what I dread more.... is smelling THE smell!

Bigus beat me to my story

I remember shouting "I need a POO" and the midwife chuckling saying that was just the urge to push. So I pushed. And pooed. I only knew because of the smell. I was mortified, which is daft given the enormity of the other thing coming out of me

Oh, and I wasn't even constipated beforehand - had done a service poo before going to hospital. More

I'll shut up now!

An enema is a flush out of the back passage...they used to be commonplace years ago.

Together with a shave according to DM doin.