Comments on: Top 10 DOs & DON’Ts of Pooping During Labor & Birth http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/ One Labor & Delivery Nurse's View From the Inside Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sammy http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2924 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:24:24 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2924 I’m just 6 weeks pregnant and this has been a worry if mine since I found out but after reading this I really couldn’t care less if I poop! Ive always had problems with my bowels anyway so i cant get embarrassed! When u gotta go u gotta go!! Thinking about it my sister is going to be my midwife so payback for everything she’s ever done to me ;-) !

]]> By: kaitlyn http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2920 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:10:18 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2920 I don’t have any children YET. I have been a nanny…so I have helped raise enough:)

This is a question that has popped into my head time and time again. Glad to see that other women share this worry/embarrassment. And it is also wonderful to read that so many women have stories to relieve any of us who are worried about it.

Good article to read!

]]> By: Whitney http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2914 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:04:09 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2914 I’m so glad this article has been written. It’s such a relief to me. I’m still embarrassed, but hearing it from a ld nurse really helps because it doesn’t make me feel nasty. Which it shouldn’t, because after all, it is natural.

]]> By: Genilene http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2898 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:52:52 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2898 I was sooo worried about the whole pooping thing, but feel so much more at ease now. I really believe in what you said about facing your fears as I want to be as prepared as I can possibly be in order for my baby to born healthy. Thank you so much for this amazing site!!

]]> By: Genilene http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2897 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:50:31 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2897 Hahaha!!

]]> By: Felicity http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2895 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:14:00 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2895 So I have the right to refuse an enema before being induced? I’m being induced in 2 days for my 4th child and I have a new OB. She said I have to have an enema and I have never had one before delivery. Frankly, its been freaking me out for the last 2 days!

]]> By: Jazzy http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2886 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:20:47 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2886 After reading all these posts i do feel alot less worried about pooping but at the same time it makes me think:

“damn by the sounds of it there is no chance i wont poop”

haha but i guess it most likely wont be as bad as i imagine

]]> By: Curious http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2862 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:03:43 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2862 So how did it go giving birth in September? What happened? I love all the posts… I was just curious…

]]> By: Laura Schuerwegen http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2848 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:12:04 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2848 Great article! Sharing in tomorrow’s sunday surf. I was so worried about this when I was pregnant with my first child, but they gave a laxative at the hospital. This time, I don’t care :) and it will be a homebirth

]]> By: Angela http://nursingbirth.com/2009/03/15/top-10-dos-don%e2%80%99ts-of-pooping-during-labor-birth/#comment-2823 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:34:22 +0000 http://nursingbirth.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2823 I gave birth to my first daughter almost 24 years ago. Nobody had mentioned to me or pre-warned me that I could possibly poop while pushing. Even when the midwife asked if I thought I might need an enema it didn’t cross my mind that I may poop accidentally. To be honest I’m ready glad that I was oblivious to this fact as I’m probably one of the most self conscious and easily embarrassed people you could ever meet. I think I’d have tried to keep the baby inside me forever if I’d thought about it happening to me. Anyway, I suddenly became aware of the nurses saying to each other that they thought I needed to poop. As soon as they said it I realised that I did and that I’d been unknowingly trying to hold it in and that it was affecting me pushing the baby out. They told me to go right there on the delivery couch. I said no. They said you have to. I still said no. they said you need to push this baby out and you can’t while you need to poop. I was horrified and said I can’t, it’s too embarrassing. They insisted and altho I was mortified and it was one of the worst things I’ve ever had to do, to actually poo on purpose in front of my husband and a group of strangers, I finally managed to somehow let go and poop and my beautiful daughter popped out about 5 minutes later. As soon as I laid eyes on her, all memories of the pain and the poop instantly vanished. I very rarely think of it unless something triggers it off like stumbling onto this blog. My husband has tried to embarrass me a couple of times over the past 23 and three quarter years but one glimpse at the look on my face has told him that he really doesn’t wanna go there and he dropped the subject like hot coals. I would like to say to any expectant woman don’t worry about it. The most important thing is giving birth to your wonderful, healthy, new born child. Good luck & congratulations xoxox

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