How many of you second or third time mommies have actually pooped while having the baby? My boyfriend thinks it happens more often than not and he thinks it'll happen to me. I know it happens but I don't feel it's extremely common. Please be honest.

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I'm really curious to see if it's more common than I think.

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My midwife said " it's like taking a bowling ball over a tube of toothpaste, it's bound to happen" lol!

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I'm a FTM but my girl is 17 days old now. 
Not only did I poop while pushing in a squatted position... but the nurse didn't see it and stepped in it.. then my husband stepped in it too 😂😂😂 I was terrified I'd poop while pushing in the beginning and I was not getting anywhere at all. As soon as I stopped caring I started progressing a lot quicker. Don't worry about it, I won't even talk about pooping with my husband and I still don't give a damn that it happened. I pushed out his baby, he can deal with a little poop 😎

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I pooped like 4 times. Every time i tried to push i pooped. All that constipatuon for 9 months got released in 7 hours. It was great.

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Honestly I was pooping so much up until I went to the hospital I was surprised I didn't poop. Guess I emptied out before hand.

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My first I didn't my second idk yet my sister did with her first and her second guess it just depends

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My first I had an epidural and did with my second no epidural and I didn't ... Without the epidural I think I could focus more on the right muscles because I could feel it

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I have given birth 3 times and only had a bowel movement during delivery one of those times.

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I didn't but because they gave me something to compleatly empty my bowels as soon as I got to the hospital, so there was nothing to poop.

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I'm only a FTM but it is common because of the muscles you use to push. I don't even know if I did but it definitely felt like I needed to

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Even if you do poop they aren't going to tell you.  Believe me, they deal with worse things on a daily basis.  With all the straining And pushing you are doing with your bottom it's bound to happen.  But it's not a big deal.

How many of you second or third time mommies have actually pooped while having the baby? My boyfriend thinks it happens more often than not and he thinks it'll happen to me. I know it happens but I don't feel it's extremely common. Please be honest.

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