Comments on: Hanging onto this

By: Jimin Han

Jimin Han — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:02:57 +0000

So great, Jenn! Post more!!!! What else are you working on?
xo,
Jimin

By: Rachael

Rachael — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:09:43 +0000

One of the best birth stories I’ve ever read!

By: blue milk

blue milk — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:30:02 +0000

A seriously terrific birth story.

Man, looking at these comments and thinking about my own fears I realise that we’re all caught up with the pooing during birth issue. My midwife told me in 30 years of practice she had only seen ONE woman who had not pooed even a tiny little bit during birth. Relax, it is inevitable.

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:20:52 +0000

x33 I couldn’t stop giggling while I read this. It made my morning. Happy birthday Hattie.

By: amysue

amysue — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:29:34 +0000

As did my mother before me, I crowned my first on the toilet. Why does no one explain about the poo? And the mooing is key.

If we can do this, we can do anything.

Happy Birth Day to both of you.

By: suzy

suzy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:03:38 +0000

I LOVE birth stories! You are badass! This made laugh out loud. I so remember “needing to poo”…pacing the bathroom and getting on and off the toilet.
Don’t let go of that feeling! Not the poo one, but the amazement and invicibility. The liberation of doing something you didn’t think you could possibly do. Of experiencing something truly new.
I’m so happy this memory reminded you that you ARE a BADASS. You CAN get through this. You pushed a wombat out of your va-gaga for chrissake.

By: Sunski

Sunski — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:54:56 +0000

A great story – thanks for sharing.

From the day that I peed on the stick, I was afraid of the poo. I even told my brother-in-law at the Thanksgiving dinner table how worried I was about the poo (which was definitely too much information from me). The drugs that they gave me were bad drugs in that I don’t remember much of my daughter’s birth, but my husband has confirmed that I did in fact poo and that the wonderful labor nurse cleaned me up quickly and discreetly each time. In my birth story, the labor nurse is a super hero — bless her.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:30:01 +0000

Well. My husband was in the tub with me when I started pushing, and then when I got out to push on the toilet, he stood there awkwardly while the (too much information) sank to the bottom of the tub. My midwife said, graciously, “there is no birth without poop.”

You hath transcended our humble physical laws.

[bowing]

By: Kelli

Kelli — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:54:09 +0000

“It’s nice, at least a few times in a life, to realize you’re stronger than you think you are.”

By: Spot the Wonder Dog

Spot the Wonder Dog — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:41:59 +0000

Ha ha ha ha.

Being a guy *rocks*. No splitting in twain for me, thank you very much.