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

Pregnancy

Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

Flip

1 2

Original poster

The sieve!!

33 replies

Meringue33 · 03/10/2012 22:48

Just been to a water birthing lecture and I have to ask - is the sieve really for that purpose?!!! And how likely actually is it that I might do a poo right there in front of everyone and that my DP would have to scoop it out?! This is really my room 101 :(

OP posts:

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

ParrotsEtEmAll · 03/10/2012 22:50

Yes, it really is a poo sieve. I thought I'd mind but I didn't, I just ignored it.

Good luck, I loved my water birth.

Wolfiefan · 03/10/2012 22:52

Had a water birth but no poop scoop needed. Enjoy your baby.

YoullLaughAboutItOneDay · 03/10/2012 22:52

They are very discrete (discreet? which spelling is it?). I don't even know if they used it for me.

JennerOSity · 03/10/2012 23:08

I believe around 50% of all births involve poop scooping whether water birth or no.

CailinDana · 03/10/2012 23:16

Chances are you won't even notice, or if you do you will not be one bit bothered. Honestly you're so caught up in the labour that white doves could shoot out your arsehole and you'd just go "oh" and carry on!

wannabedomesticgoddess · 03/10/2012 23:19

Have never had a water birth but..

Trust me, by the time you get to the pool you wont give a toss if you poo or not and who might see it.

When you go into hospital to have a baby you leave your dignity at the main entrance. You get it back after the 6 week check! :)

ThreeWheelsGood · 03/10/2012 23:26

I don't think your partner has to scoop it out - the midwife does it, she sees it all the time!

CailinDana · 03/10/2012 23:29

Oh yeah, your DP won't have to do it, don't worry!

JarethTheGoblinKing · 03/10/2012 23:33

"Honestly you're so caught up in the labour that white doves could shoot out your arsehole and you'd just go "oh" and carry on!"

^^ this.

and

and if a bomb had gone off in the room I wouldn't have noticed! I was having my own happy little rave while off my tits on G&A. The various monitors were clicking and beeping away in such a pleasant rhythm.. All I cared about was access to water and the chair I was leaning on.

(DP swears I didn't poo. I think he's lying)

CailinDana · 03/10/2012 23:34

I definitely pooed. Copiously. I didn't give a shit (only in figurative terms, in literal terms I very much did indeed give plenty of shit).

HeffalumpsAndGoldenWoozles · 03/10/2012 23:54

I knew I'd pood first time, twice, midwives were very discrete and it was wiped away immediately although not before DH had noted similarity to play doh for later mickey taking

Second birth was in the pool, DH says yes I did but I had no idea. The sieve was used.

Neither time could I have cared less, the point at which you poo is usually as baby's head is getting very close to emerging, that is a sufficient distraction

geologygirl · 04/10/2012 00:17

I thought ds was arriving. Looked down in water and there was a huge turd.

Midwife scooped it away.

I did not care. Was just gutted when I realised I had a lot more work to do...

ZuleikaD · 04/10/2012 06:39

It's a lot more than 50% of births that involve pooing. You have to use the same muscles and you're pushing in the same direction so it's highly unusual not to poo. The sieve is also if you're sick in the pool, as I was.

PickleSarnie · 04/10/2012 08:16

I'm not sure it would be possible to pop a baby out without pooing. As zuleika says, its a very similar action and, if there's anything waiting to come out, it'll come out.

Midwives see it all the time though and you'll forget about it once you see your baby.

Dogsmom · 04/10/2012 08:31

You can either poo in the bath or on a bed, lol, the midwives really wont care, my main worry isn't a poo it's doing a big fart, they seem so much louder in water and send bubbles rising.

Original poster

Meringue33 · 04/10/2012 21:52

Omg omg omg. Thanks guys, I guess :( Starting to wish it was like the old days and he would just wait outside the room with a cigar!!

OP posts:

Orenishii · 04/10/2012 23:14

Dogsmom I was just saying that EXACT same thing to DH...a poo could just slip out, bob away quietly, to be sieved out discretely.

A forcibly expelled fart will loudly announce itself and create waves bubbles.

Goodbye, dignity!

HeffalumpsAndGoldenWoozles · 04/10/2012 23:57

dogsmum I'm so glad I've already had my water birth, the risk of fart bubbles never occurred to me!

CailinDana · 05/10/2012 07:09

It really will be fine Meringue. I know from a distance it seems awful and embarrassing but it's really hard to describe the feeling and atmosphere in the room when a baby is about to be born - it's amazing and exciting and things like blood and poo really aren't an issue at all. Your DP will be so amazed to see his child come out of you (and it really is so so amazing and weird) that any amount of poo won't make a difference to him. I would lay money that you'll be lying there with your gorgeous bundle and suddenly think "Oh, did I poo?" and not even know!

sammyleh · 05/10/2012 10:31

I'm intending on a water birth too, and to be honest I think doing massive fart or poo would be quite funny. I laugh at my own embarrassments all the time anyway because I'm so clumsy and daft at times. I've just come to the conclusion that I'll be sharing the pool with more than just my baby anyway, might as well embrace the silliness.

growyourown77 · 05/10/2012 11:00

if you do poo in childbirth (water or non-water) do they wipe you? it just occurred to me - otherwise it would stink!

HeffalumpsAndGoldenWoozles · 05/10/2012 11:35

If on the bed yes they'll just quickly wipe it all away. No need in the water that does the job for them.

It's really not a big deal at all even though it sounds gross, they've seen it all and worse before and you'll be so focused on meeting your little one you won't notice, or even if you do you won't care :)

growyourown77 · 05/10/2012 11:40

phew! and bless them for doingit - who'd want that job!

ZuleikaD · 05/10/2012 12:04

They don't wipe you, IME - everything's so widespread at that point that there's little, er, detritus. They've usually got paper mats spread on the floor or bed so it all just gets whipped away.

Sparklyboots · 05/10/2012 13:53

I think I pood virtually all the way through my labour. I didn't really seem to mind at the time, but I am blushing as I write this.

Flip

1 2

Swipe left for the next trending thread