Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

Flip

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Original poster

ok feel free to name change but who did a poo during labour

173 replies

starshaker · 14/06/2009 10:29

and if you pooed with your first did you do it with any others. Is there anything you can do to stop it. Im due in Jan (so ages away) and im paranoid about it lol

OP posts:

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

PresidentTaylor · 14/06/2009 19:25

Just realised I wrote cue in my last post (about 6 hours ago!). I meant queue

fizzyanddizzy · 14/06/2009 20:41

If it's really worrying you - don't have a waterbirth. The last thing you need is seeing poo swim past you

ohdearwhatamess · 14/06/2009 20:54

Not with ds1. Yes with ds2 , just before he popped out. There was nothing at all I could do to stop it (and oh how I tried).

Dh will not let me forget it either.

pippa251 · 15/06/2009 07:49

I saw a video of a water birth - as I am currantly preg with DD1 and they have a sieve and just sieve it away. It was a question that someone asked at our water birth class and the mw said that they have a sieve and you wont notice- then we saw a water birth video and she pooed and you would not have noticed if our mw would not have pointed it out

v dignified

flamingobingo · 15/06/2009 07:58

Sorry, but there's nothing you can do about it. You'll probably do a poo during labour on the loo anyway, or just before you go into labour. But while you're pushing, there is pretty much nothing you can do to avoid the pressure of your baby's head, and all the pushing you're doing, from pushing out a bit of poo too.

Best to just not think about it - you won't know anything about it, and the midwives won't mind, will have seen it all before, and will just clear it up without saying a thing.

sweetkitty · 15/06/2009 08:09

I did with DD1 and 2 but not with DD3

DH said the MWs just dealt with it and I think he did with DD2, as he said "there was a baby coming out you, do you think I was bothered about a bit of poo" there is nothing you can do about it as birth is so anal anyway, the baby's head feels like a giant poo

blinks · 15/06/2009 08:27

no poo with first and pooed all over the joint with second.

they're good at cleaning you up without you noticing. tis whipped away lickitysplit.

cariboo · 15/06/2009 08:40

No pooing for me. Given an enema first, thank goodness.

cariboo · 15/06/2009 08:54

But I puked. And puked. And puked again but nothing came up but bile since I'd been starved for the previous 24hrs. They don't go much for messy births in Switzerland so enemas are "de rigeur" but had I pooed, I wouldn't have noticed. Seriously, you have so much else to fill your mind that sh*tting yourself is not a thought. It's more like "get this baby OUT - NOW!"

thelollipoplady · 15/06/2009 08:55

tis true - once you get on that labour ward - all inhibitions disappear. I stripped off for DD2 ... born during midsummer heatwave in baking hospital - and walked around in the nuddie. Now I'm on iron (TMI ALERT!!) am fully expecting to produce a massive black poo as DC3's head crowns in 3 weeks' time...

christiana · 15/06/2009 09:09

Message withdrawn

blinder · 15/06/2009 09:52

ROFL christiana! It's those moments that a marriage is built on.

I pooed a bit, but the MW swiftly wrapped it up in a paper towel and got rid of it. All in a day's work for her .

Doing the poo helped me get the hang of pushing the most effective way and was very useful for that reason!

You probably won't even notice. But it sounds like your doctor last time has his/her own issues. Being told you are 'disgusting' during birth is wrong. Let that go. It was her issue. When you give birth, if anything, you are at your most wonderful .

PavlovtheCat · 15/06/2009 09:53

No.

weblette · 15/06/2009 09:54

Absolutely no idea if I did with any of my 4, wasn't really in the place to care if I had as they were all rather intense experiences.

Gillyan · 15/06/2009 09:59

I did

Lizzylou · 15/06/2009 10:04

Not with DS1, with DS2 I vomited, pooed and sweared like a trooper.
I didn't care at the time, DS2 was 10lb 11oz and a ventouse delivery.
I also had a room full of students come in to watch the ventouse delivery,they asked me if it was OK, I said yes.
I couldn't care less that there were all these people at the end of the bed looking up my fanjo.
All bets are off during labour and the lack of dignity was bottom of the pile of my worries tbh!
You'll be fine and won't care a jot if you do poo.

juicychops · 15/06/2009 10:12

it was the thing i was dreading the most- pooing during labour. and yes i did!! but didn't know at the time

SpawnChorus · 15/06/2009 11:05

Pretty sure I didn't with DD, and pretty sure I did with DS...although it might have just been a fart.

Christiana - LOL

There's a certain sort of karmic justice regarding that squeamish doctor, isn't there? Obviously she's a twat for thinking a labouring woman's poo is disgusting, and even more of a fuckwit for expressing her disgust, BUT it stands to reason that she must be disgusted on a daily basis. Haahaha! She must find her job unbrearable.

mummy2t · 15/06/2009 11:32

i was worried about this too but when your in the middle of it all you really dont care. i did with ds1 but not with ds2.

SpawnChorus · 15/06/2009 11:50

By the way, I also object to the "leave your dignity at the door" ethos. As far as I'm concerned you should be treated with the utmost dignity even if, nay, especially when shitting yourself. Just because you're giving birth doesn't mean you are no longer a person with normal feelings. I think some midwives and doctors lose sight of that.

Lizzylou · 15/06/2009 11:55

Starshaker, I hope that you get a more sympathetic doctor this time.
I have to say both times all the medical staff were wonderful with me, even with DS2 when I lost control of all bodily functions and gained a potty mouth.
There is nothing to be ashamed about, and it's totally natural.
With DS1 I was paranoid about being catherised, really scared I would have to be. I ended up having it done 4 times and wasn't bothered at all.
Once you're in the delvery suite you'll be fine.

Goober · 15/06/2009 12:00

I had 3.
I didn't with any of them. Though the farts I was doing could've melted ya face right off!!

sliceoflife · 15/06/2009 12:07

With ds labour started spontaneously and I had a good clear out just before leaving for the hospital. I can only describe it as a bit like the loose stools I used to get with very bad periods. I read somewhere that the hormones which make the uterus contract have the same effect on the bowel.
DD was induced and I felt like I had been constipated for months. I expected the same clearout to happen in early labour as with ds, but it didn't, so I definatly pooed during labour and remember the midwife whipping it away discretly. Sorry if TMI

Northumberlandlass · 15/06/2009 12:31

I clearly remember my aussie midwife shouting "Come on darling...PUSH, show me that brown star!!!!!" - she was fantastic. Yes, I did poo but she wiped it away discreetly.
xx

PootleTheFlump · 15/06/2009 17:37

Speaking as the birth partner/friend of a very private, shy person who pooed in labour, I really think she didn't know she had done it, the midwife whisked it away, she's never asked and I've never said! Really wouldn't spend from now until January stressing about it

Flip

1 2 3 4 5 6 7