No enemas at my hospital. And I had been suffering from terrible constipation in the days leading up to birth. And the pre-labour diarrhoea just never arrived for me unfortunately - despite huge numbers of prunes, pear juice and everything else.

But during the birth - I couldn't have cared less - I was concentrating on other stuff. Surprising since I thought I would really have a big hangup about it. The midwives and my doula were really discrete and just kept me clean and tidy. Even my DH who is particularly poo-squeamish was fine with the whole thing.