Too stubborn to listen to symptoms

[GinaRae]

I really think I won't go until after the 24th and I refuse to sit and think that every day this is the day. Well, I think that, but I refuse to obsess. Thanks to everyone here I have realized the labor symptoms could go on for days or weeks. So instead, I am just crabby about it!

I had a terrible night. I went to bed with crampy cx's every 15-20 minutes. Usually BHs go away when I go to bed, but these were the low ones. I was totally ticked off about it because I knew it wasn't labor but it was disruptive.

I THINK I was up most of the night with them. How do I not know, right? Because I was dead tired and there were no witnesses.

I believe they woke me every 15-20 minutes from 12am to 4am and every time i would stumble to the bathroom and back and the SPD was killing me. Then I finally slept from 4a-8:30am, waking every hour to pee. I was so wiped out when I had to get up.

Then I've been having loose stools all day and this really makes me upset too because I get awful hemorrhoids from that.

My middle son predicted a week or so ago that today was the day, so I finally bought a potable hose and sea salt to be completely ready for the water birth, just in case. And I am SURE it was all for nothing! But my son really wanted to know mama was ready.

I just hope I sleep tonight. I was feeling great except for the groin pain when I went to bed, and woke up feeling terrible. I don't need multiple bad nights in a row.

[Grace24]

Hmm... I hope it either lets up for you or turns into labor so you can have your baby!

(Though selfishly I'm hoping it stops cuz you're supposed to keep me company around here in preggo land for the next couple weeks! )

I hope you feel better, either way. I'm sorry you had such a bad night.

[GinaRae]

If I don't stop pooping I am going to scream....

[Googy]

Originally Posted by GinaRae

If I don't stop pooping I am going to scream....

Why? I'd kill for such a promising sign of labor!!!

[GinaRae]

It's not though! It keeps happening.

Loose stools, then I get constipated for a few days, then I empty out again. And each is painful. I would rather just have normal poos and take the chance of pooping during delivery than go thru this misery for weeks on end.

I really think I won't deliver for quite a while. I hope not! Mom's coming Thursday and my living/dining areas are a mess because of last minute projects, eBaying, etc.

[GooeyRN]

I hear ya on the pooping thing... I have had loose stools for the last 3 weeks. yuck. Pooping all the time really aggravates my 'roids.

Grace24, I will be here with you for the next couple of weeks! You won't be alone!

[chrysalis]

man i used to be queen of the cow piles......ever since i moved back to oregon from minnesota hell and stopped taking the floridix, my poops have been solid and floaters. in fact i just pooped again tonight a nice big log...i can't believe how different these poops are from the mushy ick i used to have constanstly....stress and floridix?

i'm thinking yours is a lot due to stress? are you taking floridix by chance? and are you drinking a lot of water??? hang in there....maybe it is a sign of impending labor...? hugs.

[GinaRae]

No flordix and less stress now than ever during this pregnancy. I don't think it's impending labor, I just think it's torture!

[canadiannancy]

Sucks...I know pooping during labour was one of my big fears..dumb eh? But...I would be miserable too if I had that pattern going on for long enough. Hope your bottom feels better...and you get some sleep!

[AKmomof2+1inNov]

For my hemorrhoids I got one of those squeeze bottles they give you after birth and started using it on my backside and then finished with the bottom cream from Earth Mama. It really worked!

I hope you feel better soon!

[GinaRae]

I have NO phobia about pooping during labor and delivery. Does that make me sound icky? I think if I THOUGHT about it, I might get upset. Or if I see something floating in the pool...

Otherwise, I feel like I could care less. I have No idea if I have pooped during labor before!

As far as the hems go, I ALWAYS have to use a wipe of some kind with even just plain water after a bowel movement. I have chronic hems that just sort of stick around waiting to act up ever since my last vaginal birth. So I have to clean really well afterwards, pregnant or not.

Creams and homeopathy if they get sore. I HATE CREAM ON MY BUM. Ughhhhhh!!! Yuck. Makes me feel so gross when my cheeks are sliding past each other as I walk

[Grace24]

Oh boy, this has turned into a thread I can REALLY relate too. The roids, man! They're horrid! I can't get rid of this one, and don't know how. The cream doesn't seem to get rid of it this time... early in the pregnancy it seemed to, now it's back with a vengeance.

I don't care about pooping during labor either, but maybe you're right, I'd freak if I saw it or something... DH and I had to buy some more supplies for our homebirth and we had to go buy the fish net. He held it up to me and said, "Anything that comes out of you that fits in here, we throw out. Anything too big for this net is a baby, and we keep him."

So I don't think DH cares much either...

[chrysalis]

i used to have a HUGE fear of pooping while birthing vaginally...that was a long time fear of mine in my 20's... strange, i don't know where that came about, even... i didn't have the fear when i was pg w/ megh...i didn't care if i pooped. i don't care now either. funny.

[adon]

Originally Posted by Grace24

Oh boy, this has turned into a thread I can REALLY relate too. The roids, man! They're horrid! I can't get rid of this one, and don't know how. The cream doesn't seem to get rid of it this time... early in the pregnancy it seemed to, now it's back with a vengeance.

I don't care about pooping during labor either, but maybe you're right, I'd freak if I saw it or something... DH and I had to buy some more supplies for our homebirth and we had to go buy the fish net. He held it up to me and said, "Anything that comes out of you that fits in here, we throw out. Anything too big for this net is a baby, and we keep him."

So I don't think DH cares much either...

my MW told me the best way to get rid of hemerroids is to actually just push it back up and in everytime it's out:. she said they will eventually have a memory after a while. i've been trying it out and so far i've had luck

[maisiedotes]

I have always been wicked afraid of pooping, I don't think I would even know if I did- hopefully if i do they will discreetly not move it and not be like 'HEY! Youse guys gotta come see the huge poop this broad just made right on the table!" Or if they announce it and hold it up for me to see... I will kill DH if he makes any jokes or EVER tells anyone.

sorry. Just trying to make light of the subject and make myself feel better. I frankly can't stop pooping either. aargh. Like, 6 a day on average. :

[dcgrl]

When my mother was in labor with my sister (her first baby), she pushed and pushed and felt such joy and relief and asked the doctor what it was (meaning boy or girl), and the doctor very seriously replied, "Mrs. Carr, you just had a bowel movement."

I love that story!

[GinaRae]

I was just coming in to the thread to say I was feeling a bit more chipper today, despite the pooping, and what do I find?

This.stuff.is.hilarious.

[Momma Aimee]

Gina i think of you every day -- it would kill me to be one of the last EEDs int he group -- i do not wait well and was nuts by week 38

AImee

[GinaRae]

Thanks Aimee

I am less grumpy about it all today. I really would be SO okay if it weren't for a couple of nagging things like the groin pain. The poops have slowed today finally.

I will panic on 11/30 when my dad is due to come in to town for 3 days on Dec 1st and my mom is supposed to be leaving with him. She said she may have to extend her trip if I haven't had the baby by then. We'll see.

But my dad won't be here for another year and he's always seen the babies as soon as they're born and I get sweet pictures (as sweet as you can with my dad holding a baby in one arm and a remote in the other). I really want to have those pictures with this baby.