Congratulations! It's twins!
A quick one. My sister was two weeks overdue with her second baby. Subsequently she had to be transferred to a different hospital in order to be induced, as the maternity hospital in her home town didn’t have the necessary facilities.

As she lay there in labour, the effort of pushing unfortunately caused her to spectacularly shit herself. And there wasn’t a thing she could do about it…

I’m so glad I’m not a woman sometimes.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:05, 8 replies)

My midwife told me
that roughly half of all women shit themselves in the labour ward (I'm in the other half, then).

I think the midwives are immune to it.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:07, closed)

I have never given birth....
But I would think that the last thing I would be worrying about while expelling some lump of a baby through my teeny little vagina would be shitting myself.
( girlinthehole, Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:13, closed)

I too was under the impression
that this is a fairly common occurrence!
(Bazongaloid, Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:14, closed)

^
I believe it is... but still, childbirth is undignified enough.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:16, closed)

@BGB
It really is the last thing on your mind at that point. Mind you, before heading to hospital to have my first, I insisted on shaving my legs. Labour or no labour, I wasn't going out like that! Wasn't easy, nine months gone and in a small shower cubicle.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:17, closed)

I have yet to experience childbirth
but have been lead to believe that this was standard.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:19, closed)

Had to watch a birth video
and this indeed happened then too.

It's where I coined the phrase:

"They wrapped it up like a bag of chips and took it away".


I can see the head! It's got dark hair! Oh.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Wed 2 Apr 2008, 16:21, closed)

Far more civilised to have them taken out through the sun roof
And while high on pain-killing drugs one can read 'Hello' magazine in peace as they carry out the removal process. Then one can say, in the most affected posh voice, "Have them scrubbed and brought to my room"


Ah...if only it were that easy...
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 2 Apr 2008, 22:44, closed)