Can we revisit the pooping while pushing topic?

I know this has been discussed before - a while ago.

I am so anxious about this. I just read in one of my books that when pushing, anything in the rectum is going to come out. So now, since I am coming close to the end , I am trying to , ahem, go to the bathroom all the time bc I dont want to go to the hospital , then realize I have to go to the bathroom

Also - I think once you have the epi, you cant walk around anyway, (right???) so what happens if you have to go to the bathroom then??

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I think drs are so used to it that they dont even mind anymore. Im sure it happens to lots and lots of people. Ive been trying to do the same thing. Trying to get myself on some sort of "schedule".

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what about an enema?

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If it happens, it happens the doctors and nurses have seen it a bazillion times. I'm not worried. If I poop it means I'm pushing right.

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Ok, I can definately answer this!! I just delivered last week..

It was my worst nightmare to poop while pushing, but it happened! DH had to point it out to me & the nurse yelled at him & said "why did you tell her?" (I had a feeling I did anyway)
I had the epidural so I couldn't walk around. They give you a foley catheter to urinate and if you have to go #2 then you just go, right there. Very mortifying, but it's just one of those things you can't control. In the 2 days before I delivered I was in the bathroom (#2) A LOT (sorry if TMI) so when it was time to go to the hospital I thought I wouldn't poop while pushing, but I was wrong. But trust me, as embarassing as it is, the nurses/doc/MW could care less.

Good luck!!

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I am really nervous about this too. There are no secrets between DH and myself, and at times, even no dignity (lol), but I really don't fancy the idea of pooping in front of him. (I don't care about pooping in front of the docs/nurses.)

With my last DD, I was induced and sent straight from the OB's office. While DH went home to get my bags, I actually asked the nurse for an enema (since i could not use the one I had at home). She was delighted! And it was calm, pleasant, and no, no pooping on that table!

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I didn't poop on the table with DD so it doesn't always happen. You usually don't eat for several hours before the pushing starts so try not to worry about it.

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oh god, this is one of my fears as well, i will take a colace the night before and hope to go the following morning or afternoon, i am being induced tue at 6:30

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I asked my OB if he wears a "splash guard" because it WILL happen with me as I have been a slave to my intestines for the past 6 years. He said he wears them.

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I know if your being induced they won't let you eat past a certain point...
If i end up being induced i will try to clean myself out as best as I can prior...if not then whatever...Dr's are used to it...I mean something is obviously going to come out besides a baby when you are pushing that hard
and in the moment I probably won't care.

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Yet another reason I am SOOOOOOOOOOO glad I have a scheduled csection!!!!! Thank goodness! Bad enough you have all these people looking at your cooch and then to let them all see your bowel movements...Dear LORD!!!!!!!
On the other side, they're all used to it....lol
XOXOXO
BOTB

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The closer I get the more I am considering an enema at home before I go to the hospital.

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First, please keep in mind that your body prepares for labor way more than you'll realize. Your body is designed to naturally clean itself out in preparation for the big event. It's one of the signs that labor is about to start, actually.
Second, labor can last for a really long time, and you generally can't eat during it, so your body isn't working to produce waste really at that point.
Third, once you're actually in labor and at the point of pushing - you most likely won't even think about the pooping possibility! You just want to meet that baby!!

By the way - I didn't when I gave birth to my daughter - it doesn't always happen!

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Posted by mikeswife06

The closer I get the more I am considering an enema at home before I go to the hospital.

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I'm def. not worried. If it happens, it happens, so be it. I'm sure they've seen it 100s of times.

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Ok someone explain this to me as I'm confused. Where does it go exactly? I understand the catheter, I've had one of those before, but the poop, if you just have to go, even not while pushing and you say just go, where do you go?? Right on the bed where you're laying??

And while you're pushing if it happens, where does it go? Fall on the floor???? I'm sorry I'm just so confused and I've never been in a delivery room so I don't know the bed set-up.....

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Posted by newwife08

Posted by mikeswife06

The closer I get the more I am considering an enema at home before I go to the hospital.

How do you have an enema at home??

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Posted by CkGm

I didn't poop on the table with DD so it doesn't always happen. You usually don't eat for several hours before the pushing starts so try not to worry about it.

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when I first heard about this years ago, I was .. but now I am pregnant and there are so many other things that could possibly go wrong (but heaven forbid!), this issue suddently doesn't seem like a big deal to me anymore.
If it happens it happens.. I am already exposed on the table for all to see, I have to grow thicker skin.

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I didn't poop during delivery. I had the catheter for urine and no poopy issues. Also, by the time you are trying to push the baby out, you don't care about ANYTHING except delivering that baby.

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Posted by mikeswife06

The closer I get the more I am considering an enema at home before I go to the hospital.

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not an issue to me.....

it's sooo common during labor, and the staff is always so professional about it (they clean it up before anyone even notices) that I don't care.

after all, you're ALREADY on a table in pain and spread eagle.... I think of it this way... to become mothers, at first, we all must sacrifice our figures and our autonomy, and later, our comfort, and finally, our dignity.....

it's all worth it!

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I have been SOOOO constipated since the day I got my BFP, so one of 2 things will happen:

1. i can make up for the last 9 months on that day OR

2. I will remain as constipated as i have been for the last 17 weeks


I feel like I push pretty darn hard at home and nothing happens so maybe that will be the case on the big day

LOL - YUCK!

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