Pooing in labour

[shalaa]

Please tell me i'm not the only one with a fear of pushing really hard and delivering something other than a baby

had a fear of it beforehand, during I really really didn't care, and afterwards I was told I had! I am sure the midwives have seen it all!

we had enemas in my day [yuck!]

if you do, you won't know about it

why didn't my bold work??

I used to worry about this too. It didn't happen in reality but I know it can do. It happened to the wife of an ex-bil's brother. Dont' worry though. The staff are professional you know! and would just wipe it up and move on. When I was in labour though my body naturally cleared out early on so there weren't any problems.

catgirl - u've got to do each word individually

No and you won't be the last. Everyone worries about this but honestly at the time you won't care, neither do the midwives, they have seen it many many times before HTH

Catgirl, you have to put asterixes around every single word that you want to bold.

ok now I understand thanks!

thats why my italics didn't work

what a ball ache!

Hmmm, maybe this discussion is putting me off the idea of having a water birth..... or would it happen before I get in the water if its going to happen????

It really is not an issue. Don't know if I did with DS - asked DH out of curiousity but he doesn't know because he didn't look - wimp! With DD (I gave birth standing at the side of my bed) I know I didn't - put she was only 3 pushes and out. DS was 2 hours so there is that possibility.

shalaa,

I dreaded this as well and it happened to me when I had no 4 :(
Must admit, I was a bit embarassed at the time (or as embarassed as you can be when you're in agony) but in the grand scheme of things it wasn't that important, not when you've got a lovely little baby to think of.
and as others have said, the midwives have seen it all before

itll just float to the top and theyll scoop it out with a sieve

NICE!!!!!

And nailpolish isn't joking

I told dh I had a fishing net for him, he loved relating this to everybody.

As it happened I was induced so never had the waterbirth. My midwife was my best friend

i believe you mrs about the fishing net! lol!

I was really nervous about that too, but then when it came to it i couldn't care less.

Also, some people have an enormous "evacuation" either in the early stages of labour or a day or two before (for me it was during) and that can sometimes help your system get rid of most things.

Even if it does happen you won't notice, and afterwards you're to busy holding a gorgeous baby to care if you did ir not.

Relaaaaaaaxxxxxx, you'll be fine

xx

I know that I would care....and tbh find the fact that people con't care the most frightening thing of all....I don't want to be that out of control/in pain that I don't care about pooing in front of strangers...I don't even poo in front of dh! I find it genuinely horrific.

There really isn't much you can do about it though, so in the scheme of things it rates very low when in the throes. With ds I had a spontaneous labour, naturally cleared out and couldn't tell you whether it happened later on as was somewhat preoocupied. Had enema with dd (induced) and still did but noone commented.

you probably wont even notice HONEST

and you will probably go in the early stages, i think the majority do. its even recognised a sign of early labour

when are you due? lots of luck xxx

I'm planning a c-section, for this amoung other reasons, to be honest.

Aloha i'm afraid that if your bowels haven't emptied before you go into labour then it will happen. Anything that is in there will be pushed out by the babies head, sorry!
Not something i am looking forward to either but i really believe it will be least of your worries.

ALso a concern of mine. DP has declined to join me in the water

What if it's squitty and you're in the pool ?

It happened to be with no 4.
The labour was very fast. With all my other births I had managed to go in the early stages. With ds4 though I was in a shared side room as I wasn't in established labour when the urge to push came out of nowhere. I was rushed to the delivery room in a wheelchair shouting "I need the loo".
The loo was at the other end of the delivery suite and I knew I could not get there. Dh gave me a sick bowl and I used that. On the next push ds4 shot out before the midwife could get her gloves on. The emergency button had been hit by the midwife as they had been expecting problems delivering the shoulders.
The team arrived to see{and smell} my husband holding a steaming bowl saying "what shall I do with this"?
Tbh I was just too stunned to care

I had a water delivery - wonderful BTW - and the poop was scooped by a very lovely midwife! I did get a bit upset when it happened - I thought I'd given birth (how naive!), and was quite surprised when I saw what was in the pool! TBH, I'm a complete prude, won't poo in front of ANYONE, inc dh, but the midwife just dealt with it so matter of factly that it wasn't even an issue, and the labour and wonderful end result just took over really. If you're really concerned, can you ask dp to say to the midwife when you get there, or mention it to her yourself?