Is pushing like pooing? 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️😂

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For those of you who have given birth before I want to ask a slightly TMI question..
With my first I had the epidural, I felt nothing, no sensation to push at all & tried for 6 hours before he was finally delivered through forceps assisted delivery. 
I’m now 33 weeks pregnant & due to be induced at 37 weeks due to medical issues. 
However in terrified of not knowing how to push again! I'm going to try & go without the epidural so I'm hoping this will help with the sensation of how to push. 
But I remember when in labour I was trying so hard to push from my vagina rather than my bottom. I'm just wondering if I should actually be pushing as though I'm trying to poo? 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 Although the idea of pooping in labour terrifies me, I'm wondering if that could've been part of the issue in my first Labour!

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I was told to push like I was pooping and guess what....I POOPED 😳 2 out of my 3 births ended up with me pooping. Praying to all things holy I can manage to not do it this time around 🤦🏻‍♀️

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You push with the same muscle. It’s like your taking a big poop and you push, so like the hardest push you can do.

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To help bring baby down canal push as if your pooing during contractions. Its going to feel uncomfortable when the head is low and i just pushed down into my bottom until she came out. Took less than 20 minutes and 4 pushes

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You push with the same muscles as you do to poop! I had an epidural but luckily still felt when my contractions were happening so I was able to push without being told when. But I also ended with a forceps assisted delivery but my son had shoulder dystocia

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I did not push with my poop pushing muscles lol. I pushed with my belly/diaphragm, but idk if that makes sense. The same muscles you use to like do a sit up...but without doing the situp lol. Idk if that makes sense.
My son was out very quickly, I think like 5 or 6 pushes total. Doctor was impressed with how well I pushed. 
I also did not have the urge to push and did it when I was told it was time.

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I read to think of a coffee plunger. Breathe in, hold, and push down with your diaphragm. I’ve also heard to push like you’re pooping so we’ll see what helps on the day 😂

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Didn’t have an epidural with my son, so I felt every little thing. I didn’t physically push, I let my body push him out on it’s own and breathed down with every contraction. It’s an extreme pressure, to bear down. Similar to pooping in a sense but it takes over your body.

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Very much.

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It is basically like pooping bc there’s potential of you actually pooping when you’re pushing, and I did end up pooping 🤦🏼‍♀️ I also got the epidural and felt nothing but I did feel when my stomach would tighten and then my nurse would tell me to push when that happened.

Is pushing like pooing? 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️😂

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