Anyone anxious birthing a whole human infront of their husband?

I don’t want him to see ANYTHING! What if I poop and he sees it? Or just the pure trauma from all the blood and obviously what your coochie looks like during birth.

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Lmaoo when your giving birth trust me ur not going to care

My husband saw me poop the second time, he didn’t care, we laugh about it!

The first time he watched me have an enema (I felt like I needed a poo so bad and couldn’t do one, I just kept complaining and the nurses offered me one 😂🤦‍♀️ there was no poo)

He saw it all and he was more just impressed by how women do that and what they go through. He was super proud.

Men don’t care what you look like down there. I’m not sure anything would put them off that!

When I first got to the hospital , I was feeling shy and not wanting him to look . By the end , almost 24 hours later when it was time to push, I didn’t care who was looking.

You’re not gonna worry about it at all during birth 😂 I remember feeling so embarrassed doing my first sweep I felt like I was gonna die from shame but then during labor I was full on naked not giving a shit 😂

My husband caught our son and we are hoping to have that again. He was more in awe than anything else. Watching our son come into the world was amazing for both of us.
If you do poop, the nurse will clean up so fast you may not even notice.

But I guess it depends how squeamish your husband is.

Im more worried about everyone else seeing it to be fair haha. Ive told hubby hes staying head end. He ain't looking at an alien v predator situation down there if he wants another child

I didn’t even notice my husband was taking photos of the whole thing, I was so out of it, (photos just for me to view after in case I wanted to). I also pooed and didn’t even care 😆😆🫠

He still finds me sexually attractive so don’t worry about it!!

My husband watched the baby come out of me and he credits it as one of the most incredible and memorable moments of his life

If you poop it will prepare him for what's to come when his child potentially poops on him... which is bound to happen.

This women at my birthing center thought she was in labor so she came in, got in the tub, and took a massive poop. She was not in labor and went home shortly after.

Safe to say pooping is normal, and that's going to be the last thing on your mind in labor anyways.

All jokes aside, he'll most likely be more in awe at how strong you are to create life and bring it into the world.

Just curious why u or any woman are anxious abt giving birth in front of ur partner? Are u not comfortable around him or not comfortable being at ur most vulnerable with him by ur side?
Cuz personally I was more anxious abt complete STRANGERS like the nurses, the mid wife or the obgyn etc seeing me like that bt certainly not my Husband. So I am jus asking so I can understand were these anxious feelings come from

I've had 2 children, and this didn't even enter my head, I'm not sure why any women would be unless they aren't 100% comfortable around their partner

I was worried about this but mine was fine. My ob even asked him during my pushing - want to see her head? - and he got all up in there 🤣 had not a care in the world about seeing anything but got weirded out when cutting the cord 😅

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Best thing I did for pumping

When my son was born he was 6 weeks early and my supply was not in and I didn’t want to formula feed him. I got an amazing output after 5 days straight of pumping for what felt like hours and then when he left the NiCu and he came home my supply drooped rapidly, like over 150ml to under 60mls and this kid wanted to eat a lot so the stress didn’t help. I did my research and started drinking mother milk and Moringa tea every morning and let me tell you the difference after a few hours is scary good. The photo is after 13 mins of pumping on a machine that when I used it for 30 mins I got the smallest amount.

This might not work for everyone but it’s definitely something I personally recommend trying at least once if you can and your supply is low.

This is coming from some that did everything, coconut water, oats, hot showers, body armour sports drink, power pumping.

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Thoughts on taking one to hospital?
Think there’s advice to wait if you’re planning on breastfeeding but could be wrong. Hopefully planning on just expressing milk and have plenty of colostrum.

Anyone else in the same boat

My girl is 3 months old 4 months on the 14 th
And the only way to get her to sleep is motion or she just won’t go to sleep anyone else having to do the same ?

Getting scared it’s a habit now

Have you had a “do whatever you want” moment? Share the battles you didn’t pick

At 2am my youngest was inconsolably screaming. After 20 minutes trying to figure out what she wanted she got a bar, but no it doesn’t stop there! She refused to throw the wrapper away and instead insisted on sleeping with it. So there she was snuggling with an empty bar wrapper like it was her most loved possession and I finally got to go back to sleep (I went to bed at 1:30 so I was in no shape to fight again lol)

colostrum

i know they say how much colostrum you collect before birth doesn't influence your milk supply after birth but today (my third time collecting it) I got 18 syringes and am worried I'll be an oversupplier and get infections because of it