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PlainandTall
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Poop. poopitypoop. Let's talk.
PlainandTall
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I just want to get this out...
joking aside... really... let's get down to business...
I studied anatomy in college- and I can't tell you how many hours I spent in class looking at the pelvis of that skeleton hanging there wired together... people who have not studied anatomy or spent a lot of time around a pelvis without meat on it may not really appreciate the intricacies of this bone beyond the points of your hips- but there is a very clearly defined round passage through the center of the human pelvis- of course we all understand this in theory when we hear about childbirth- this is the place we have to fit the baby through... but do you REALLY understand it?
Do you also understand that your colon ALSO lives inside this round passage of your pelvic bone?
I get the feeling that some women forget this...(from the number of women who are surprised or frightened by the fact that they feel like they might poop- and often do!) as if their whole life poop magically appeared in the toilet after passing through a special time/space/odor gateway from the front of your abdomen to the back- like a rectal stargate...without making it's way through this broad tube of bone which is your pelvis.
Now if you were to take a very ripe banana and cut one end of it off... and lay it in the gutter of a bowling alley- and then roll a bowling ball down the gutter... I think you can predict the outcome...
you would not be afraid the banana might get smashed out of it's peel... you would not be ashamed the banana made a mess... you would not think that you could aim the ball and somehow will the banana to withstand the pressure of the ball rolling over it RIGHT? The banana does not "lose control" it has over it's body function right? It's just getting plowed over by a very heavy object and it's got no means to resist!
So why would a woman think that she can push a baby's head through a round tube of bone which also contains the culminating contents of her large intestine - without forcing the contents of that sausage casing to surge forward of the baby skull shaped squeegee?
Poop already! get over it! it's OK.... you are beautiful mama- LET. IT. GO.
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Re: Poop. poopitypoop. Let's talk.
Okay, I now have to go and get the monitor cleaner as I have sprayed my ice water out through my nose all over it! One would think thebump would come with a warning, "do not drink and bump, may be hazardous to one's computer system".
Thank you for posting this. I WILL be passing along to my husband to read as he is one of those men who is still under the impression (mistakenly obviously) that women do not poop or fart.
I have to admit, I was a little icked out when I first discovered this tidbit not covered by ANY of the "Birth Story" shows on TV. But logically, it does make sense and whatever, I am probably not going to care since there is plenty of other mess coming out at the same time anyway. Again, thanks for the giggle of a reality check and the "why" behind the "what".
look, poo is gross. no two ways about it. It smells, often has textures that are not quite right, and sometimes splatters. I don't blame women for not wanting poo as part of their birth story. but yes, I completely understand the anatomy and why women poop in birth and fully expect to do so. I still don't have to like it.
: ) but funny post to read.
This post just made my day....and I think my coworkers are aware from all my giggle-snorts that I am no longer actually WORKING.
Thanks for the laugh!
Too funny!
But note to the preggos- I announced at least 10 times to everyone "I poo-ooped" while I was pushing and all 10 times they looked and told me, "nope sweetie, that's just the baby's head your feeling."
So, rest assure that not everyone poops :-)
Speaking of bodily functions...
I may have just peed myself laughing!
::runs to get a banana and a bowling ball::
Mother's Day, 2011
What I couldn't fathom before I gave birth is that when the time came, if I pooped, that I wuoldn't care. I simply didn't believe people.
The thing is, they were right. I couldn't care less that I pooped in front of people.
Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old
Hahahaha!!
However . . . sometimes your body works with your sense of decency and if you're really lucky, you'll poop before you have to push (I did, that was the start of labor for me). But, if it happens when baby is coming, no big deal, it's certainly the least of what's going on.
What a coincidence- this just showed up on my facebook- this article from a midwife's blog that has great pelvic diagrams for conceptualizing the baby's path to birth...
https://midwifethinking.com/2010/08/13/in-celebration-of-the-op-baby/
...only there is no large intestine depicted... we see images like these all the time- which is reasonable- why complicate matter when it's not what you are trying to illustrate- but have you *ever* seen that tube of toothpaste (great one!) with the thumb on it?
And yes- I should have made it clear that not everyone will poop... but if there is poop in that section of your intestine at the time the baby decends- it's pretty well going to have to come out.
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I was the same way. My MW was like "nope, you just pooped out a baby, that's all."
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Haha, this is great and must be C&P'd to 3rd trimester for them to read...or made into a sticky note at the top of the page.
With DS I kept thinking I had pooped when I was pushing and I insisted on a mirror not initially to see babys' head, but to prove them wrong because I was so sure I was pooping. But nope, no poop.
I am planning a waterbirth this time around and I just keep thinking what if I poop in the bath? Is it going to distract me to see poo floating by? Or worse, what if it isn't solid and I'm suddenly swimming in poo soup?!
Home Birthing-Breastfeeding-Cloth Diapering-Baby Wearing-CoSleeping-Delayed/Selective Vaccination Mama to Charlie (5yrs) and Madeline (21mos)
Seriously. It's not a big deal.
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that was one of the most embarassing questions i've ever asked my mw. i hadn't even thought about it until someone brought up merconium & poop in the tub. my mw assured me that there won't be any problem recognizing either one & that's why they make you bring a scoop. i've had quite a good laugh with some experienced moms, one who did poop & one who didn't (and seemed shocked that it could happen), and how it'll be dh's job to scoop the poop. glad to hear about so many women who say it didn't even phase them, it makes me less nervous & self conscious!!!!