Your worst fear - ???

mckayleesmom wrote: what was your worst fear or embarrassement that would happen in the delivery room,,,mine was that i would have gas and be farty...lol...I know its funny, but I would have rather had a bowl movement then fart in front of people...

catou_98 replied: I was mortified I was gonna poop in the doctors face while pushing! ....you see I have this bowel problem and I *always* well *almost always* have loose stool......imagine the horror of that happening, I would have preferred to die! thankfully tought I ended with a c-section!

Mommieto2Girls replied: Isabelle, mine was the same thing.... lol The only good thing about having to have a c-section..... lol

~CrazieMama~ replied: I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, most women actually do "poop" while pushing. I hate to admit this, but my ex-husband told me that I did this. The nurse cleaned it up and went about her business. It is very normal, yet very embarrassing. This is why women used to have to have enemas upon admittance. My worst fear was needing a c-section. I was worried because while in labor with my son, I had pre-eclampsia. I worried that I would have it with this one as well. That and the fact that I have terrible pain in my chest for some "unknown" reason, according to doctors.

dolfinrse replied: When I was in labor, and it was time to push, I told the nurse that I had to poop, she told me to go ahead, but I wasn't going to do that and have the dr, nurse, and dh see that. Afterwards, the nurse told me that is how it is supposed to feel when you are ready to push.

coasterqueen replied: My worst fear before going into the hospital was the poop thing, but then when we all decided that I was going to be induced that was my worst fear that the induction was not going to go right and I would need a c/s. My worst fear came true, I had a c/s

~CrazieMama~ replied: awwwwww, sorry to hear that.

mckayleesmom replied: lol...I would have rather pooped then farted...lol...Im such a dork,,,but until my husband and pregnancy,,I had a thing about people hearing me fart....I was in 2 relationships before dh that equaled about 5 years and I neither guy heard me fart 1 time....lol.....Dh probably has when I was pregnant cause I didn't care...but I still never fart if hes in the room with me,,I go to the bathroom,,even if its the middle of the night and hes alseep..I go in the bathroom.

dolfinrse replied:

Me too!!!

Actually, I have to say that dh won't fart in front of me either. He goes in the bathroom too.

CantWait replied: my dh would love if I went into the bathroom or at the very least left the room to fart......I could care less if he's in the room or not....

my worst fear was having an epidural or a c-section. I almost had to have the epidural, but luckily just as they were getting the i.v. into me, I had the urge to push

MomToMany replied: My worst fear would be needing a C-section. I couldn't handle that. I'd have the Dr. try everything he could first before resorting to one.

amynicole21 replied:
I only WISH my husband would leave the room

Before I went into labor, my fear was the pooping thing. Once I was in labor though, I didn't care a bit. I was embarrassed that I couldn't push right, though... the nurses and nurse midwife had to stand there waiting for me to deliver for 2 hours. The whole time trying to get me to do it right. I couldn't feel from the epidural, so I had no idea what I was or wasn't doing. I felt like I wasted everyone's time.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: My worst fear was probably the whole situation. It really is scary for first time moms. I'm pretty modest and insecure. I think I was just freaked out by the whole thing. I was scared by the epidural (which wasn't bad) and the IV (which killed my hand) I was scared to poop, but everyone does and they never say anything, they just clean it up and go on. I told DH and mom not to tell me if I poop and they didn't, but I knew I did. It is all a wonderfully humiliating experience in my books, but I'm so glad I went through it and I will be more than happy to go through it again in March.

DansMom replied: I didn't worry too much about the labor in advance, because I had been through it as a coach and knew that they quickly take care of all the bodily fluids involved and that nobody cares at that point---they want to see that baby's face and shoulders! I was worried about tearing as bad as my sister tore though, and indeed I tore worse.

As far as pushing, Amy, don't feel bad: I did not have an epidural and still could not do it! The pushing phase was 2 hours 45 minutes with me. I was so exhausted after 20 hours of unmedicated labor that I had no fuel---literally nothing to push with, and even though I could feel where the midwife was telling me to push I still could not seem to get it right. I was actually apologizing between contractions to everyone who was waiting, and also crying, thinking that I got this far, and now I won't be able to deliver the baby! But I finally did.

aspenblue1 replied: My biggest fear was having a c section. They kept telling me she had a big head, but she didn't and everything was fine.

MommyToAshley replied: My biggest fear was that the cord would be around her neck or something like that. I was such a worry wart and I had a few scares with her heartrate dropping when I was in labor so I was petrified!

MommyToAshley replied:
LOL We are the same way.

Actually, sometimes my farts make him leave the room (and vice versa). LOL

MommyToAshley replied: P.S. You know you are among friends when you can talk about poo and farts. LOL

Maddie&EthansMom replied:

Yep, that's us, too. HeeHee! How lovely!