Everybody Poops WRONG

Delguy92 · #11 09-12-2008, 02:55 PM

My parents had me stand on my head when pooping.

Hmm..... This 'sitting' thing sounds a lot less messier...

Decent · #12 09-12-2008, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Panama Girl

Someone once described it to me as "trying to shit a cantaloupe while having the cramps from Hell". I'll pass.

My sister was already told she has to have a C-section (she's really narrow-hipped), and we were all C-babies, so I really have no problem with the idea. Plus, no risk of tears, episiotomies, postpartum incontinence, or not being quite as tight as before the baby...

Exactly. Although, with my first, I DID ask if I could try. Since I was accidentally in light labor anyway, they hooked me up to a machine that measures how bad the cramps are on like a needle and paper rolling graph, they let me get halfway to the top then took him. Well, I did sorta say, "It gets WORSE than this??" lol

Tracy · #13 09-12-2008, 04:58 PM

Obviously different women have different experiences, but my first was vaginally and my second was a Csection and I can tell you that if for some reason you can choose (but you probably won't be able to anyway), choose vaginal. When I had the first baby, the labor was REALLY hard but afterwards it was cake. I could walk around like it was nothing and that was with an episiotime (sp). The aftercare was really not a big deal. Now, with the second baby....the epidural wore off during the middle of the Csection so I felt EVERYTHING of a major surgery. Then they found some way to stop that, but I couldn't feel anything below my neck so I couldn't hold my son for his first couple of hours. I had an ungodly amount of stitches from one leg to the other. It was VERY painful walking. A couple weeks after I got home from the hospital, they took the staples out, I walked up ONE step and all my stitches busted open so I had to go BACK to the hospital. After that, my MIL the nurse had to "pack" me for about three weeks....it was a NIGHTMARE. Short story long....don't wish for a CSection.

Oh yeah....my son was wedged in there so they STILL had to use forceps so he had a conehead even with the CSection.

Delguy92 · #14 09-12-2008, 05:06 PM

As I said in a previous post....

If men had the babies, the human race would be extinct LONG ago.

$%^& THAT!

More power to ya ladies...

Spyder08 · #15 09-12-2008, 09:53 PM

People just give me more and more reasons to NOT want to have kids. Thanks!

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motherof3 · #16 09-12-2008, 10:14 PM

I would never want a C-section, but there is no way in hell I'd do vagina without an epidural! Once I had the epidural it was cake. I went so fast, it just took numbing the pain so I stopped freaking out! lol But either way I'd say just having a healthy baby is all that mattered, you really do forget just how much it hurts.

Tracy · #17 09-12-2008, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by motherof3

I would never want a C-section, but there is no way in hell I'd do vagina without an epidural! Once I had the epidural it was cake. I went so fast, it just took numbing the pain so I stopped freaking out! lol But either way I'd say just having a healthy baby is all that mattered, you really do forget just how much it hurts.

absolutely!

Tracy · #18 09-12-2008, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Spyder08

People just give me more and more reasons to NOT want to have kids. Thanks!

Spyder...I sent you a friend request so that you can see my photo album on my profile. That way you can see the result of that AWFUL csection and see it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO worth it!

Decent · #19 09-13-2008, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by DeCurlyGirl

Obviously different women have different experiences, but my first was vaginally and my second was a Csection and I can tell you that if for some reason you can choose (but you probably won't be able to anyway), choose vaginal. When I had the first baby, the labor was REALLY hard but afterwards it was cake. I could walk around like it was nothing and that was with an episiotime (sp). The aftercare was really not a big deal. Now, with the second baby....the epidural wore off during the middle of the Csection so I felt EVERYTHING of a major surgery. Then they found some way to stop that, but I couldn't feel anything below my neck so I couldn't hold my son for his first couple of hours. I had an ungodly amount of stitches from one leg to the other. It was VERY painful walking. A couple weeks after I got home from the hospital, they took the staples out, I walked up ONE step and all my stitches busted open so I had to go BACK to the hospital. After that, my MIL the nurse had to "pack" me for about three weeks....it was a NIGHTMARE. Short story long....don't wish for a CSection.

Oh yeah....my son was wedged in there so they STILL had to use forceps so he had a conehead even with the CSection.

I giess it's different for everyone. I was up around right after mine, staples came out a week or two later, no problem, they gave me a bakini scar so it would be hidden right behind the elastis in a bakini, very small light scar now, can barely see it. I had no problems like yours at all after mine. I guess everyone is different. Neither of mine could have turned out better. I'm sorry yours was so bad.

arudawakening · #20 09-13-2008, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Decent

I mean go out and buy like 10 large cucumbers and put them in 'there' all at the same time while you're having your period then get your SO to punch you in the abdomen, hard.

That IS indeed a bit of what it feels like, but that's just the good part. A little over 18 yrs ago I delivered my daughter completely natural, she was 7lbs 9oz, 20.5 in. I broke every blood vessel in my face, bit a nice hole in my tongue and I'm still not sure exactly what I dropped out of my "bottom" BUT my son was born (8 yrs later) by emergency c-section and I feel like I missed something. Also, to add my personal experience the c-section was harder to recover from. I was lucky that her head wasn't squished, she looked very normal, but she wasn't THAT big so I suppose that is why.

The other downside to c-section is they generally give you morphine afterward and you can't breast feed for a few days. Something I think is very important to the bonding stage.

Now as for the pooping position issue.... it is true that raising your knees is much healthier, and will ease those tough turds right out. It does add a whole new perspective to the original Everybody Poops thread, now picture John McCain and Barrack Obama in adjacent stalls....

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