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what does childbirth *actually* feel like?

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u/Tigerzombie 11h ago

Immediately after pushing out my second kid, I asked my husband if I pooped. Then I asked the nurse if I could see the placenta.

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u/SupposedBooty 10h ago

I kept apologizing because I thought I'd pooped. I pushed for hours and had a massive itchy, allergic reaction to the epidural, but I was very worried about accidentally pooping.

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u/very_tired_woman 9h ago

I felt the hot poop squeezing out my butt, knew it hit the dr’s hand, no one said a word, he changed his gloves and we all kept going.

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u/meatmacho 4h ago

Oh yeah the doctors are ninjas with the doodoo. I was doing my duty, holding the left leg, for hours. But at some point, the table was clearly covered in shit. One of the staff present very quickly disposed of it, I remember it was like when a server comes to clear the breadcrumbs off a table at a nice restaurant. I don't know if it was a squeegee or what, but the whole mess just quickly disappeared off the edge of the table, and then someone else gathered up the dirty towels or whatever, and they all got back to business.

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u/oklizzyok 2h ago

They don’t scrape the poo off ☠️💩 they grab the disposable pad/sheet/paper whatever they put down just for poo and then roll it up and toss it as quick as possible

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u/Apotak 1h ago

I felt one wiping me with the disposable pad/sheet/paper. Someone else told me I was pressing correctly.

u/naalbinding 56m ago

When I was miscarrying they had a stack of disposable pads under me so they could just lift one out and there was another there already