Avoiding 'floaters'?

[thebluenoser]

I'm going for a water birth, but what about the whole poo issue? My widwife says it's quite amusing and you don't really care about it at the time, but my DH isn't convinced. I think he's worried he'll be given sieve duty!

Can you ask for an enema? Or any tips to avoid the dreaded floaters (or I suppose, depending on what you eat, sinkers!)

I wonder if the visibility of the stains five years (and several dry cleans) on, is connected to the huge jungle curry I'd eaten the day before the birth in a desperate attempt to bring the pregnancy to a hasty end......

I had to throw the dressing gown that I part laboured in away as I couldn't remove the rather lurid poo stains from it!

So it's not just me and my radioactive bowels then!

I'd just like to say this is THE most entertaining thread I have read here.

Thanks ladies!

I didn't poo in any of my four births AFAIK but almost wish I had, so I could join in.

Haven't laughed so much in ages.

FWIW I'm really not entirely sure if I pooed or not... no smell and had a blanket over my legs so no visuals on anything. DH up at the head end, but if I did it must have been wipped away fairly quickly....

I'm sure my hospital gave you something to stop you pooing when you were admitted... but I just swallowed whatever it was without asking so not really sure.

This is the most vivid and graphic and detailed thread I've ever read (apart from my own). So informative.

Am really gonna go for a water birth, dimmed lights and dh with cigar outside with my Dad while my Mum and I are sweating it out.

The stuff on here is hilarious!!

Are the cigars to cover up the smell ??

I knew I'd done one when my partner lurched away from the bed gagging

Love the name

PMSL soooo much

I'm a pooer too, though a dry-lander, so not an expert on floaters. I'm just praying that the woman who's dh wants her to have an elective c/s doesn't read this thread, she might change her mind about the water birth

OH-NO, you're here!!!!

I was talking to the birthpool people the other day and they well selling the pool on the basis that 'the colour is dark, things floating in the water are less obvious' (I was asking whether I may as well just use my (very large and deep) bathtub instead).

Lizzer, that's me! And dh

No no no darling, I'm so gonna go for the water birth. At least no smell, a quick sieve and lift et voila

The other option would be to give birth kneeling on all fours and I can vividly picture the poo scene (urgh) and would rather be in the water.

This thread is soooo funny. I was a dry lander for ds1 and don't dare ask DH if I poo'ed or not. I don't think I did but would hate to have this illusion shattered.

This thread has me chuckling away!! Thanks ladies :P