Enema or no Enema.. that is the question. I obviously would like to keep my delivery room poo free but on the other hand I've never had one, don't know how it works {other than it goes up your butt} and am worried about having a quick delivery and pooing my kid out while I'd be stuck on the toilet.
Not a pretty picture.
*Edit- FYI- I know not everyone gets one. My docotor however casually mentioned that he thinks all his patients should get one but don't have to.
I think the punk is scared of a little poo.
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I had one with DD...they gave it to me as soon as I got to the hospital, and they told me to wait 10 minutes before I went to the bathroom. About 2 minutes later, I nearly ripped my IV line out trying to get to the bathroom...lol.
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Do you poo it all out at once or it it like a diarhea thing where you have to keep going to the bathroom?
Hell to the yes. I have no disire to be a martyr. I plan on getting all the drugs they offer me. I'm a big b!tch.
I just had my birthing class at the hospital. They did not mention enemas. Never would have thought to get one till you mentioned it.
I guess I figure, if I sh!t, I sh!t. Hoping nature will flush me out beforehand, but after seeing a film of the birthing of the placenta, I just don't care anymore. Let nature take her course. Not like the people at the hospital haven't seen it all before.
i wouldn't. and you really won't care when the time comes- i promise.
i was totally freaked out about it- i made sure i went that morning & since i was induced i really couldn't eat anything- so i thought i was home free.
no such luck. i pooped. but i could BARELY tell (the only reason i even could is because i had a mirror) and the nurse cleans it up so fast & they don't say anything. i actually asked & she said "yes dear but don't you even worry about it. happens 95% of the time! no PUSH!"
so yeah- you don't care. they don't care. no one cares.
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My hospital will not give an enema.
I will say my body completely cleaned itself out before I even made it to the hospital. I guess that's one of the benefits of laboring at home a bit without an epi. No joke I think I poo'ed 7 times before we got in the car.
I also say, having been through labor/delivery...had I poo'ed on the table I probably would not have cared!
It was all at once! I only went to the bathroom that one time and it cleaned me out...lol
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I've done them a couple times, and it mostly comes all out at once, or at least twice within an half hour..
i hope my nurse is as great - i had figured i wouldn't even be offered an enema, since i've read that as they're no longer considered medically necessary before birth, women just don't get them anymore. but i certainly don't want to know if i poo, either.
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I am on the fence about it. Hospital birth with DS and although it was recommended I didn't use it and didn't poo. However we are having a home birth this time, possibly a waterbirth and although it gets scooped out quickly I have no desire to be swimming in feces.
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So that's a PUSH PRESENT!!
Sorry... just was reading some threads about that, and it was the first thing that came to mind!