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just wondering if you need a prescription to get an enema? if all goes to plan i wont need one at all but i just want one sitting around at home in case i feel the need for it. last time i hadnt been to the loo for over 24 hours (cause i was induced and was in the hospital and i find it hard to go in public places TMI sorry) and i think my contractions were worse cause i was cramping up sorta from needing to go as well. anyway.. can i just get one over the counter at chemist?
No you don't, but good luck on asking for and getting one - I asked for one with my 2nd and they refused LOL. But then you could also make sure that you don't get backed up by having loads of water, metamucil/fibre and eating bowel friendly foods.
you can get an over the counter 'mircolax' these work pretty well and we use them in hospital when oral stuff doesnt work.
when i was in my last weeks i used coloxyl, nulax and prune juice as well as increasing my water intake, i found this helped but did by microlax JIC (im bowel obsessed!!!! :redface:)
awesome! i will have to go and see a chemist then. it wasnt a matter of being backed up, more a psychological thing i think the first time. this time i just want to be prepared JIC.
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.
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!!:lol: But when it came to the crunch... I could not have cared less!!
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??
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.
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!
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.
Thanks Trill for your honesty and I am pretty sure IKWYM. :)
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.
i sooooooo hope i wont need to be induced this time! :-) i didnt and dont really mind about the pooing while pushing thing (and yeah they wipe it away quickly, i didnt realise i had til partner told me later) and they actually tell you that if you do poo then they know you are pushing 'correctly'. its more of the extra uncomfortableness/pain during labour that i want to avoid. thanks for your advice girls.
I honestly don't know if I had an 'accident' with either of my two. They cleaned up so quickly. I would like not to know with the next as well!! But like it's been said, it's not top of the priority list, and they have dealt with it before!! xo