Honestly now, whats the changes of crapping in labour?

[Mammie81]

My friends have only started telling me the full extent of their labours now Im pregnant. And 2 of them crapped... Id heard it before but when my friends gave me sugar coated versions of their labours, I thought, Ah it cant be that common!

So, through the anonymous medium of the internet forum, tell me, how common is this really?! And what can I do to stop it!!!

I suppose it's kind of symbolic in a way. After labour having a quiet, uninterrupted poo may become a distant memory, and you will spend much of your day dealing with the contents of somebody else's bottom.

I definitely did a massive poo immediately before ds2 but I went from sleepy transition to crowning in about 10 secs and DH hadn't yet put down the guardian at the head end as I crapped as he was a bit engrossed. I shat a log 4 foot away from him while screaming at the top of my lungs and, yes, I've asked him, and yes, he was oblivious and assured me I didn't. I did.

You really, really won't care! I did a poo and MW just discretely cleaned it up. It happens tp loads of mums, nothing to worry about at all.

After ds was born I remarked to dp that the urge to push feels like you need to do a big poo. He replied that I had done rather a lot of pooing too...