Its time for a TMI thread....weak stomachs need not read lol. - Page 3

[yellowdart]

Originally Posted by DragonflyMom 

We live a life full of gross humor....

I told husband the other day "Man...I hope I dont poo during labor because I really like the idea of hands and knees delivery but I dont really want to poo in the docs face..."

On that note, several of our friends are psych residents at our local teaching hospital, and they always enjoy telling us stories of attending births as med students.  One of them had a mom on her hands and knees, and when the babe's head popped out, mom pooped a little and it landed on the babe's cheek.  The nurse reached down and wiped it away just as quick as that, and mom never knew. 

I'm having lots of urgent loose bowel movements these days too.  At least I'm not constipated anymore.  

[lifeguard]

Dragonfly that is too funny. I delivered ds on hands & knees & did poop a little but it really wasn't a big deal.

[DragonflyMom]

Originally Posted by yellowdart 

On that note, several of our friends are psych residents at our local teaching hospital, and they always enjoy telling us stories of attending births as med students.  One of them had a mom on her hands and knees, and when the babe's head popped out, mom pooped a little and it landed on the babe's cheek.  The nurse reached down and wiped it away just as quick as that, and mom never knew. 

I'm having lots of urgent loose bowel movements these days too.  At least I'm not constipated anymore.  

   I realize its totally normal/to be expected...and that I probably wont care in the heat of it all, or realize its happening...but to sit and think about it before the fact is mortifying...

You have to understand that I am EXTREMELY self-conscious about my body as it is...I mean, if I could deliver in the dark just to avoid anyone actually seeing my naked form I totally would!

I had my OB turn down the lights when she checked me for dilation lol.

[yellowdart]

Originally Posted by DragonflyMom 

   I realize its totally normal/to be expected...and that I probably wont care in the heat of it all, or realize its happening...but to sit and think about it before the fact is mortifying...

You have to understand that I am EXTREMELY self-conscious about my body as it is...I mean, if I could deliver in the dark just to avoid anyone actually seeing my naked form I totally would!

I had my OB turn down the lights when she checked me for dilation lol.

It is mortifying.  I guess I just have to trust when they say the staff really have seen it all, and that I won't care or maybe even know what happens at the time.  I know our hospital like to have women labor in low-light, but I suppose they turn the lights back up for the big event.  I'm really hoping I get some good effective diarrhea at the start of labor and it cleans me out for the end.

[DragonflyMom]

Originally Posted by yellowdart 

It is mortifying.  I guess I just have to trust when they say the staff really have seen it all, and that I won't care or maybe even know what happens at the time.  I know our hospital like to have women labor in low-light, but I suppose they turn the lights back up for the big event.  I'm really hoping I get some good effective diarrhea at the start of labor and it cleans me out for the end.

Yeah, part of my birth plan requests low lights anyway and when we toured the LD unit they are totally cool with that and only turn them up if they need to get a look and sometimes (depending on the doc) they use the little flexi-lites to look so that the rest of the room stays dim.

[saoirse2007]

OMG!!! that is the best!!!!

 

Originally Posted by DragonflyMom 

So last night I had to pee...bad...

Ran to the bathroom and husband was occupying the toilet so I shrugged and sat down on the edge of the bathtub to wee in there...hey, I was about to take a shower anyway and rinse it out...no biggy...

Well, the position I was in (hunched over) shoved little Jasper down into my bowels even further than he has been and BAM!!!

Cowpie in the bathtub....

Husband goes "OMG DID YOU JUST SHIT IN THE BATHTUB!?? WHY WOULD YOU DOOOOO THAT!!??"

Lolololol....yes, because that was soooooo my ultimate goal.

[lifeguard]

Lighting - with ds the lights were kept off in the room while I was labouring except for one little one over the sink. For "the big event" the ob did have a task light but I didn't really notice it.

People told me that when it comes time you won't care who is there but I didn't find that to be a really accurate description. It wasn't so much that I didn't care who saw me or what they saw it was more that I was so into myself that I was somewhat unaware of my surroundings. Believe me - I do NOT get naked easily in front of others.

[Jane]

Hot compresses FTW. That's what they are there for. It covers your butthole. And anything that comes out of it. And supports your perineum nicely, in an effort to prevent tearing. No worries.
Personally, I love to see poop. Right behind poop is baby. Poop coming out is baby coming out. I've got 20 ways to make it disappear before you even know it happened. No smell versions, too.

[Snugglebugmom]

Originally Posted by Jane 

Hot compresses FTW. That's what they are there for. It covers your butthole. And anything that comes out of it. And supports your perineum nicely, in an effort to prevent tearing. No worries.
Personally, I love to see poop. Right behind poop is baby. Poop coming out is baby coming out. I've got 20 ways to make it disappear before you even know it happened. No smell versions, too.

  Jane, you are one of my favorite people in the whole world. 

[RosemaryS-F]

Dragonflymom, Bwahahahah!

I pooped in the birth pool and dh had to fetch it out with an aquarium fish net.

[dollyanna]

Dragonflymom
 

Originally Posted by RosemaryS-F 

I pooped in the birth pool and dh had to fetch it out with an aquarium fish net.

I have always wondered that about water births

[Caracol8]

Originally Posted by yellowdart 

On that note, several of our friends are psych residents at our local teaching hospital, and they always enjoy telling us stories of attending births as med students.  One of them had a mom on her hands and knees, and when the babe's head popped out, mom pooped a little and it landed on the babe's cheek.  The nurse reached down and wiped it away just as quick as that, and mom never knew. 

I'm having lots of urgent loose bowel movements these days too.  At least I'm not constipated anymore.  

I don't care about lighting.  I care about the audience.  Especially students who find enjoyment in telling these stories that would/could mortify the mom if she knew people gossiped about it.  My first rule if I end up in the hospital is No Residents or Students!  Period.  It's one thing to be on display for strangers, but if those strangers are there just to get the credit and not for the passion and compassion - screw 'em. 

On a happy note, we bought the fishy net for our water birth and my DH has promised me he won't care if a floaty floats on by him. 

ETA:  I do know the value of being a living example for med students - I'm not hating on them, truly. As it turns out, my emergency back-up hospital is my state's university hospital.  It's just that one of my good friends has just completed med school and she has the same conversational inclinations as yellowdart's friends.  She has a lot to say about being at births as a student and has been quite vocal about never wanting to look at another vagina again.  I, personally, just want to be 10 miles away from that attitude.  And I guess I'll have to rethink the "No Residents" part.  I'm just unclear about whether residents really end up in the wards they want to be in for the rest of their careers or they just take what they can get.  My buddy seems to be going through the latter.   

Edited by Caracol8 - 9/25/11 at 10:48am

[yellowdart]

Originally Posted by Caracol8 

I don't care about lighting.  I care about the audience.  Especially students who find enjoyment in telling these stories that would/could mortify the mom if she knew people gossiped about it.  My first rule if I end up in the hospital is No Residents or Students!  Period.  It's one thing to be on display for strangers, but if those strangers are there just to get the credit and not for the passion and compassion - screw 'em. 

On a happy note, we bought the fishy net for our water birth and my DH has promised me he won't care if a floaty floats on by him. 

Yes totally!  That was my main lesson from that too.  The professionals will (probably) be professional, the students might go get drunk and tell their friends about you.

But also, shit happens.   

ETA:  I gotta say, I'm kinda sorry I posted that story.  It is some woman's private experience and those guys shouldn't have told me about it.  

ETA again:  Like pi describes below, I also generally let students participate in my care.  I also really like the idea of helping students get exposed to natural birth.  We'll see, though.    

Edited by yellowdart - 9/24/11 at 9:45pm

[~pi]

Originally Posted by Caracol8 

I don't care about lighting.  I care about the audience.  Especially students who find enjoyment in telling these stories that would/could mortify the mom if she knew people gossiped about it.  My first rule if I end up in the hospital is No Residents or Students!  Period.  It's one thing to be on display for strangers, but if those strangers are there just to get the credit and not for the passion and compassion - screw 'em.

Keep in mind that residents are there because they have chosen to go into ob/gyn. They may have as much or more "passion and compassion" as any attending. They could be planning to avoid ob and only do gyn, but it's unlikely.

Students, of course, are much more of a crapshoot. No pun intended.

Personally, I believe really strongly in educational purposes and I only ever go to teaching hospitals. (Though that is not solely by choice in pregnancy -- teaching hospitals are the only ones in my area that deal with people in my health situation.) So I try very hard to be open to including people at various stages of training, but I also just refuse to have people be part of my care if I'm feeling overly observed or if I don't click with someone. (For example, I am not clicking all that well with my MW's current student, so when I was asked if the student could check me before a stretch and sweep, I refused.)

[emmaegbert]

the couple of med students I know were always blown away and amazed by their OB/GYN rotations. I never heard them making fun of people or anything, they were more like... discovering the miracle of life etc. For some of them its one of the highlights of their medical training, being there for something like that (and think about what the rest of their rotations involve... the reasons people are in hospitals... and the lack of social/emotional support that most med students probably have to deal with that)

I hated that I pooped in my pool. this time if that happens I hope I can be more relaxed about it.

but Jane is right, both times it was moments before the baby was born.

On the TMI front... like Nicole... I had a gross dream last night. That my kids were picking up dog poo and crumbling it up with their fingers. EW.

[nicolian]

I pooped while in labor with my first son. The nurse just kept cleaning it up. Lucky lady. lol

And, I also didn't find it to be totally accurate that I wouldn't care who was there and what they saw. I was VERY aware that there was poo coming out, and was SO THANKFUL that I was laying on my left side, facing my DH so he couldn't see anything coming out the back side. So much so that when I gave birth to my second son, also lying on my side, I made sure to face DH for pushing.

[yellowdart]

Okay, so, more TMI:

I'm super swollen and juicy down there, like some other ladies in this thread.  It's not uncommon for me to get bits of TP stuck in my parts after I pee, and all this swollen juiciness is just making that about 500x worse these days.  I just know I'm gonna go to the hospital in labor and they'll open me up for a cervix check and it'll be one of those times I forgot to check and I haven't taken a shower in a while and I'll be full of TP bits.  

Also I have a hair growing out of my cheek.  It's white, and if I didn't pull it now and then it would be as long as the hair on my head.  As far as I can tell, this just developed after I got pregnant.  

[RosemaryS-F]

When DH and I were newlyweds, we both got this horrible food poisoning that lasted for 2 days. His dad is a Dr. and since we didn't have insurance at the time, brought us over some anal suppositories. We counted to three and inserted them together. Instant comfort with anything poop/butt related ensued!

[DragonflyMom]

I have a nipple hair....and I cannot find any tweezers nor have I been able to remember to buy them :(

Originally Posted by yellowdart 

Okay, so, more TMI:

I'm super swollen and juicy down there, like some other ladies in this thread.  It's not uncommon for me to get bits of TP stuck in my parts after I pee, and all this swollen juiciness is just making that about 500x worse these days.  I just know I'm gonna go to the hospital in labor and they'll open me up for a cervix check and it'll be one of those times I forgot to check and I haven't taken a shower in a while and I'll be full of TP bits.  

Also I have a hair growing out of my cheek.  It's white, and if I didn't pull it now and then it would be as long as the hair on my head.  As far as I can tell, this just developed after I got pregnant.  

[newyorkmommy]

I will add to the discussion just by saying that, like pi, from now on I will pick and choose which students I deal with. Sometimes they're just very sweet and nervous but totally respectful, but after the failed VBAC + uterine rupture after my last birth, I was in the hospital and this student came around, at first with a seemingly interested attitude in hearing what had happened. I was grateful for the opportunity to chat and told him all about it, after which he fairly abruptly said his farewells and left, and I remember feeling sooooooooooo exposed and resentful -- that I had clearly thrown my pearls before swine, if you will. I was just the crazy lady in room whatever who tried to have a home birth and it didn't work out, blah blah blah.

Luckily this time I'm at a hospital without students or even residents -- everyone is attending, apparently -- and I honestly feel better, especially with the anesthesia portion.

My SIL actually has a story of a young female resident putting in her epidural and then saying, "HOO-ah." And the epidural wasn't even actually a good one, at that.

Can I also add to the TMI portion here by saying I love the crusty nipple adhering to bra, but, crusty hoo-hoo adhering to underwear, not so much.