I pooped. My obstetrician was old school. No nonsense. Natural childbirth all the way. When she delivered my son she laid him on my chest for 10 minutes before cutting the cord. Didn't understand the significance at the time. Best experience ever!!
Back in the very early 80's, it was de rigueur for laboring moms to have an enema in the hospital. On my deliveries in 1980 and 1982 respectively, I was required to have an enema to clear my bowels so nothing would squiret our during my contractions. Is this still the practice in the 21st century?
Excellent question. I only had one hospital birth, and that was in 1999. I was desperate to "progress," because the hospital had put me on a timeline and shamed me about my labor not going fast enough. The OB on call actually accused me of being "selfish" (which was about the most painful thing he could say to me at the time). I requested an enema thinking it might help make room for the baby. In retrospect I realized that of course the baby had plenty of room, my body was just flooded with stress hormones because of the way my husband and I were being treated. So I had an enema but I don't know if it was standard of care in any way. My three other births all took place at home. Hopefully some recent mamas who had hospital births will weigh in.
Interesting - both times I was in labor over 24 hours. The staff was supporting back then. We were "warned" about the mandatory enema during child birth classes. I'm curious as to this practice 40+ years later.
Brilliant article. I wish more people thought like this in the mainstream. I'm renaming them lame-stream. I'm pretty sure the current outbreak of hepatitis in children is because they've not been exposed to enough germs for the last 2 years, and possibly been exposed to that dreaded spike protein through shedding, so their immune systems are compromised. All that hand sanitizing and washing, masks and keeping away from other children is taking its toll. And it's horrific.
My eldest, when she was 3, asked me about the 'killing 99.9% of germs dead" on the back of the bleach bottle in the supermarket. 'What about the .1%?' she said, and in response I said - that's the one that kills you, which is why we don't use bleach so much, so that you get to meet the other 99.9% and get strong enough to tell that .1% to go to hell".
Don't they do fecal transplants now, to help people heal from all sorts of issues? That sounds awful, imagine having someone elses poo put into your own body. But that's how bad life has become, people wanting to be so clean and perfect that they don't have the right microbiome. No wonder so many people suffer IBS.
Yet if you go to a hospital to deliver, you can't eat. You get ice chips. So many things put in place to prevent nature from taking its course. And we can see the results in the health of children in this country. Thank you for this. Hopefully we can find our way back to some real healing.
I did not defecate giving birth and neither did any of my friends. Perhaps the processes involved create such situations but most women do not shit giving birth. Yes, it can happen but it is not common.
Must be why Nathan’s never sick!
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I pooped. My obstetrician was old school. No nonsense. Natural childbirth all the way. When she delivered my son she laid him on my chest for 10 minutes before cutting the cord. Didn't understand the significance at the time. Best experience ever!!
Back in the very early 80's, it was de rigueur for laboring moms to have an enema in the hospital. On my deliveries in 1980 and 1982 respectively, I was required to have an enema to clear my bowels so nothing would squiret our during my contractions. Is this still the practice in the 21st century?
Excellent question. I only had one hospital birth, and that was in 1999. I was desperate to "progress," because the hospital had put me on a timeline and shamed me about my labor not going fast enough. The OB on call actually accused me of being "selfish" (which was about the most painful thing he could say to me at the time). I requested an enema thinking it might help make room for the baby. In retrospect I realized that of course the baby had plenty of room, my body was just flooded with stress hormones because of the way my husband and I were being treated. So I had an enema but I don't know if it was standard of care in any way. My three other births all took place at home. Hopefully some recent mamas who had hospital births will weigh in.
Interesting - both times I was in labor over 24 hours. The staff was supporting back then. We were "warned" about the mandatory enema during child birth classes. I'm curious as to this practice 40+ years later.
Brilliant article. I wish more people thought like this in the mainstream. I'm renaming them lame-stream. I'm pretty sure the current outbreak of hepatitis in children is because they've not been exposed to enough germs for the last 2 years, and possibly been exposed to that dreaded spike protein through shedding, so their immune systems are compromised. All that hand sanitizing and washing, masks and keeping away from other children is taking its toll. And it's horrific.
My eldest, when she was 3, asked me about the 'killing 99.9% of germs dead" on the back of the bleach bottle in the supermarket. 'What about the .1%?' she said, and in response I said - that's the one that kills you, which is why we don't use bleach so much, so that you get to meet the other 99.9% and get strong enough to tell that .1% to go to hell".
Don't they do fecal transplants now, to help people heal from all sorts of issues? That sounds awful, imagine having someone elses poo put into your own body. But that's how bad life has become, people wanting to be so clean and perfect that they don't have the right microbiome. No wonder so many people suffer IBS.
Looking forward to your next article!
Yet if you go to a hospital to deliver, you can't eat. You get ice chips. So many things put in place to prevent nature from taking its course. And we can see the results in the health of children in this country. Thank you for this. Hopefully we can find our way back to some real healing.
Yes. Thanks for this comment. It's so anti-science and anti-common sense to "forbid" laboring women from eating and drinking, as I wrote about in this article: https://jennifermargulis.net/in-countries-with-better-birth-outcomes-laboring-women-encouraged-to-eat-and-drink/
I pooped a bit with my second (water) birth. My midwife just scooped it out of the tub.
My first birth lasted so long that I emptied my bowels well before he arrived.
I did not defecate giving birth and neither did any of my friends. Perhaps the processes involved create such situations but most women do not shit giving birth. Yes, it can happen but it is not common.
How do you know? It could be so common that you did it and it was cleaned up quickly and they didn't even mention it to you...
Trust me, I was not drugged. I know.