Did you poop during labor?

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Maybe TMI and a bit gross for some, but this is a big fear for me

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I didn't. It was one of my biggest fears because I was having birthing photos taken. The nurses and my doctor said "Okay, it's time to push, you will feel like you have to poop but chances are you wont! Just push!" So, I pushed and as soon as my daughter was out I hear "She pooped, she pooped!" I'm absolutely horrified thinking they mean me and I just stop and stare in horror and my doctor looked up at me and started busting out laughing and she said "Oh honey, not you, the baby pooped as soon as she was out" and then I looked at her scrubs and her nurses scrubs (nurse was wearing white top) and sure enough, my daughter pooped all over the pair of them. My husband was cracking up at me, but when someone screams "she pooped" and that's your biggest fear, you do think they mean you 😂

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A lot of women do, and don't even know. Doctors and nurses are so use to it, and they know it is an embarrassing thing, they will usually try to get it handled without anyone really knowing about it. It's not like they are going to announce it to the hospital if you do.

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Everyone poops a little during labour and birth... It's can't be helped your back passage has to be cleared out... More often than not your not even aware of it because when your pushing to give birth the Midwives/ Doctors just wipe it away and don't say anything... Some people may be more aware especially if your in a birthing pool or on your knees etc... It's not something to worry about I worried with my first and had no idea if pooped until I read my notes weeks later and it said 'bowels last opened during labour" other than that I would never have known... Don't worry and just enjoy... Believe me there's much more important things going on than poop.... X

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I have a friend who's mom pooped on her during labor and we always mess with her about it. Shit happens! literally lol. But that was one of my fears too. I ended up having a csection though.

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My niece had her baby a few months before me and she pooped and her husband laughed and made a big deal about.  The Dr had to tell him to shut up or get out.  So when u was in labor I was so scared I would poop that I would not push that hard. Well 3 hours later I was so tired of pushing they had to use the vacuum to pull her out.

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Shit happens lol I pooped a little with my first 😅

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I didn't know until my hubs told me after.

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I actually didn't...& I actually cried to the nurses (like actually, bawled) when it was almost time to push telling them I was so afraid of pooping. I even had diarrhea in my early stage of labor, luckily it went away and my husband confirmed that I didn't poop at all, and trust me, he's not the type to lie to spare my feelings 😜 not everybody does!

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5 labors and never pooped but it literally is a fear I have even through each pregnancy! Lol I know it happens and is normal but I just don't want it to happen lol

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Not for either of my two births! Hoping I keep the poop-free streak for this third one! 😳

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