What can i do to prevent pooping while birth?
I am 19 weeks tomorrow and i know that im far from giving birth, but due to all these horrendous stories ive heard about women pooping during birth. I know its natural and all. But i don’t want to have to smell my own crap while im giving birth. So how can i prevent pooping during birth. Other than having an enema done, a natural way of cleansing my bowels before i give birth?
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Denisedds (88)
People are gonna send you links to health sites probably. I’m gonna tell you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!
This is your first pregnancy (trust me, it’s obvious) and you are focusing on all the wrong things!
I’ve given birth twice, and I couldn’t tell you if I pooped or not during the birth. I’m a nurse, and I’ve seen enough babies born to know that I did. Everybody does! But you won’t feel it, you won’t smell it, and you won’t notice the nurses wiping it away. There is too much other stuff going on. By the time you are working to push that baby out you won’t care what the H3LL else comes out with it!
Now, in response to anybody foolish enough the recommend a bowel cleansing regimen to a pregnant woman about to give birth, let me warn you what can happen to your baby. Bowel cleansing means diarrhea. Diarrhea means dehydration. An IV will be inserted as standard of practice when you are admitted to deliver. It is much harder to start an IV in a dehydrated person than one with full veins. You’ll deal with more pain from the needle sticks to try to get the IV going.
Your baby could also be dehydrated, and what if there are complications as a result? You want a healthy start for your child, right?
And the fun part? Since you are dehydrated they will run fluids IV, and since your bowel is irritated by the cleansing regime it will pull fluids and continue flushing itself. So, do you want to squeeze out a little bit of poop, which is normal during childbirth, or do you want to squirt fluid diarrhea with every push? Nurses are used to poop and won’t even notice. NOBODY wants your fluid bowels washing over their hands and shoes!
Relax. Focus more on the birth and prepare yourself for it. There’s a lot you can be doing to prepare your body and mind for childbirth right now. Worrying about a little poop is not one of them!
You can’t. You will poop. And you won’t care.
liquid diet a week before??
I really don’t think you should worry about it. Nurses are completely used to it and pooping while giving birth should be the least of your worries. If you’re really bothered by the idea, just try and cleanse your bowels as best you can before your ready to give birth.
Trust me, that will be the last thing you’ll be thinking of when you’re in labour.
It’s a lot more common than you think, so try not to worry. It’s a natural, normal thing to happen.
Hiya,
I was worried I was going to as well-but didn’t.
I found as soon as I went in to labour my body was constantly emptying. Which is what they say tends to happen, you get loser bowels.
And even if you do-the chances are you won’t notice. Midwives are very discreet and quick at removing it.
Good luck!!
dr. like it when you poop then they know you are pushing right
You will probably do this and trust me, you won’t care one bit.
When you go into labor, your body will usually void anyway. I had prostin gel on my cervix to make me ready for an induction. As soon as that went in, i felt the need to go to the bathroom (and i managed to hold it for half an hour before i was allowed to go to the loo).
And then as labor progressed, i regularly went to the loo (on the loo) and things were kept empty that way.
Despite all this, i think i still pooped a little when i was pushing. I didn’t feel that i pooped, but i did feel one of the midwives wipe something away. I was too busy at the time to notice, and i only realized later as i went through everything in my head. I didn’t smell anything. (Healthy poop doesn’t smell by the way, it’s only when you’re eating the wrong things that it gets smelly, and usually by the time you’re pushing you haven’t had much to eat at all over the last 15-25 hours!!!).
No one is even going to say anything as to whether it happens or not. So unless you are watching in a mirror (which I had NO interest in), you won’t ever know one way or the other. I asked my husband a few days after, and he told me I didn’t, but he may have been fibbing. And honestly, I wouldn’t have cared then because I had a baby by then!
first of all you wont care as you are going to be on a bed legs open with your private parts on the show to the whole world, and second im sure the drs, nurses and midwifes will have seen it all before and will be discreet enough to wipe you without you even noticing,
Seriously sweetie – you will poop, no matter what you do to "try" to prevent it – but in all honesty you will not even realize you’ve pooped, nor will you smell it, nor will you even THINK about it at all during labor. I promise.