do you need a prescription to get ....

[Trillian]

LMAO, that's why I requested one the second time (even though I didn't need it anyway). But the irony of it was (eventually) that when I had my fourth bub, I overheard my midwife talking to another midwife about my birth and she must have said something about it cause the second midwife said 'don't you just wish that enemas were still routine' and I felt like saying 'well of course there is going to be poo when you have to push out a baby with a great fat head like he had' ROFL.

[Paddywhacks]

You can find them in the section of the chemist where they sell metamucil and other products for the bowel.

I was paranoid about labor and the thought of crapping myself in front of my partner was enough to keep me awake at night!! But when it came to the crunch... I could not have cared less!!

[AliBaby]

Do you actually know if you have done a poo or not?? Or do they whop it away before anyone really has a chance to realise??

[BellyBelly]

If you go into labour on your own your body often clears out with diahorrea, maybe this time you could avoid an induction? If you have an induction your body hasn't done all the pre-labour stuff.

[Lolli]

Do you actually know if you have done a poo or not?? Or do they whop it away before anyone really has a chance to realise??

From what I hear, they wipe it up without you noticing-there is way too much else going to worry about it! Dh swears I didn't but I don't know, I don't think he'd tell me.

Trillian, that was interesting, reading you post. I remember a friend who had her bubs 9 years ago saying she was given a routine enema- i actually thought that still happened and I was more worried about that than the thought of pooing myself anyway!

[Trillian]

I am going to be brutally honest and say that yes, they will wipe it away as quick as they can but it still gives itself away iykwim but it's nothing to be worried about or embarrassed about, it just happens sometimes and it's unavoidable. I pooed like a trooper in the weeks before #4 was born and I still did it when the time came.

[AliBaby]

Thanks Trill for your honesty and I am pretty sure IKWYM.

[Trillian]

No worries Ali! No secrets around here LOL.

Lori, I don't know why they would have stopped doing it as routine, I guess it would probably depend on the hospital maybe? Dunno.... I know that when I asked for one my midwife told me I really didn't want one ROFL.