pushing is like pooping

Re: pushing is like pooping

• Mrs.Trask

  October 2008

  That must be why constipation comes with pregnancy..prep for pushing.  At least that is why I hope we have it.  There has to be a reason for such misery!
  

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• MrsWarner member

  October 2008

  Maybe that's why we get constipated, prep for birth

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• MrsWarner member

  October 2008

  LOL-Trask, you are quicker than me!!

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• Mrs.Trask

  October 2008

  MrsWarner:

  Maybe that's why we get constipated, prep for birth

   

  Great minds think alike!!
  

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• MrsL.inMarch

  October 2008

  Well then I'll only have to push once. These muscle have gotten a hell of a workout in the last 3 months. I used to be able to be in and out of the bathroom in 60 seconds flat, now I'm lucky if I get out of there in under 5 minutes. LOL
  

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• Alligator

  October 2008

  So true!! After giving birth, I was sore in my butt, not my vagina. It was from all of the pushing. You push like you are pooping. (I don't know how I didn't actually poop during labor!)
  

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• LyndsayQ

  October 2008

  jenerally:

  you have to bear down on your bottom, not push with your neck and chest.

  Oh, and I had to pull back on my legs while bearing down with my body.

  Start practicing now (gently, though, gently!!). It's a weird, contortionist maneuver.

  I completely agree and I wish someone had said this b/f I delivered.  I felt like I was trying to take a crap for the 2 hours I was pushing.  
  

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• madhatter2003

  October 2008

  Yep, it's like pooping a watermelon.
  

  My two PCOS miracles!
  

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