Omg hideously embarrassing tmi but seriously someone help!

[mamarara]

I had my ds a week ago, vaginal birth all fine. Got straight on the lactulose and did a poo on day 5 easy!

Now day 7 and I can't go - have just spent an hour crying in the bathroom as there is a turd the size of a house brick up there. I had a look with a mirror - its there, it's as big as my baby and it won't come out.

Seriously wtf do I do apart from cry in a darkened room?! I have already taken the max dose of lactulose today so not sure I can take any more? Drinking lots, eating lots of fibre. Argh.

Help me please!

Good luck x

You need stool softeners not laxatives. Don't take laxatives they will make you contract which will hurt.

Good Luck poor excuse for marking place

Probably won't help too much at the moment, but a cup of strong, black coffee, always get my bowels working - without fail.

And as for the piles, I swore by Haemoclin when DD was born. My DH uses it as well, it will get the swelling down overnight and should help you in the morning. It is quite pricey at about £15 a tube, but it will last you a couple of months (if needed that long) and very effective.

Hope you're feeling better soon.

And congratulations!

OTM x

Have you tried pushing against your perenium? I resorted to that and it worked. I kind of pushed up and then in. It hurt mind but it working. Damn thing actually squeeeeked as it came out. I was nearly as proud of it as I was of my new born!

Totes know how you're feeling. My first poo post birth was like squeezing a watermelon out of my nostril. One word - movicol, bless the inventors of that stuff. They are true bum miracle workers.

any news.

Oh god,this happened me when I was pregnant, the bastard was about the width of my leg.
It got stuck, peeking out, I honestly thought I was going to have to call for reinforcements. I was in the bathroom for hours.
I don't even want to talk about what I had to do [traumatised]
Good luck, may the force be with you!

in your situation, i would go for a walk, but not one far from the house. i would try smelling coffee (can't stand actually drinking it whilst pregnant/immediate postnatal)

of course, if you were watching sth really interesting on telly, then you would need to go.

when you do, get your legs wider apart, try shifting position, leaning forwards and back or side to side. don't try for too long.

Chocolate always makes me shit. I am sat here on my period, with a grade three prolpase, and piles. I feel your pain.

Hope the bath is helping.

If not you definitely need to see your mw early tomorrow - if (s)he can't prescribe anything then you've got time to get things sorted with your GP before the weekend.

Good luck.

Movicol stool softener, not a laxative.

Movicol will re-hydrate your bowel so you can poo it out. A laxative will just force it out under pressure and you might tear.

according to my husband i did a poo that was as big as the baby in labour ...

i had told him not to look.

I feel your pain. I had such bad constipation after my spinal surgery. Trying to squeeze one out when my back muscles had been hacked to pieces and my spine had been straightened only a week before was not fun. Good thing was I was off my face on painkillers so I gurned my way through the evacuation.

Pressing back on the perenium really seems to help me when everything gets stuck

This happenned to me too 10 years ago after the birth of DS and I can still remember every detail. I had been taking iron tablets so was constipated anyway and had been given fibergel but it didn't work. Nothing did. I remember ex dp taking newborn Ds out for a walk while I sat on the loo for hours with a fan on an extension lead blowing onto me and crying cos I knew it was so big and was firmly stuck. Ex dp arrived home just in time for the crowning moment where there was lots of wailing followed by the most almighty plop. It was so big that we both stared at it in horrified silence before I started crying and wailing again that I was a freak and that doing a poo that big was so abnormal and that he should just leave me because there was no way he would ever have sex with me again knowing now how disgusting I was . Ex dp was trying to reassure me saying he did poo's like that all the time himself but later told me he didn't think it was possible to poo that big and that he was totally in awe .

I would say the bath idea is a good one because the warm water should hopefully help. If you do end up back on the loo make sure you have lots of time. I often find that alcohol (beer for me!) helps when I am constipated but it unfortunately won't reduce the size of the poo already in situ. Good luck!

Fannyfifer - what did you do?????

God I feel your pain (11 day old baby here).
If you can bear it I found walking around helped, warm bath and also just sitting on the loo concentrating on something else (eg reading a packet in lots of languages and trying to figure out which word is which) so not straining but trying to relax it out.

This thread has made me goodkuck with the bath!

Keep taking the lactulose. Increase the dose. Drink lots of water or squash. The lactulose can still "infiltrate" the pooh and draw the extra liquid into it thereby softening it and easing its passage. This method can be combined with suppositories.
Throughout my pregnancies I would take 35ml lactulose morning and night 70ml a day. Sometimes I'd take an extra 35ml at lunchtime too. This was in an attempt to pooh once daily!!! I also would drink a pint of squash 4 or 5 times a day and also drink red bush tea.
Eating half a watermelon can help.
Eating malt extract (a dessert spoon 2 or 3 times a day if necessary) can work like dynamite! (but your first line of defence is definitely the lactulose which needs to be combined with a lot of extra liquid. Apples and pears and fruits with stones will also naturally aid regular bowel habits.
Hold a pad of toilet tissue over your vagina and perenium securely with one hand to help you feel less like you will "burst" open while you try to pooh.

Ok there is good news and bad news.
Good - I did it. Whoever suggested Vaseline and rubber glove thank you. It was enormous.
Bad - I appear to have some kind of vaginal prolapse. Had to stick finger up fanjo and push back towards bumhole. Anyone know what this is ?
FFS. This is all very unpleasant.

In the good old days when women were kept in hospital post birth and looked after, you could probably request an enema which would work very rapidly and you wouldn't have to be upset and worrying over your bowels like this!

notalone don't make me go back there, [rocks in corner]

I think you can get vaginal piles??

Manual extraction is called for!