The Return of Christmas Dinner

The Return of Christmas Dinner Birth Story:

Please note, an important upfront point is that my biggest fear of delivery was always pooping on the table.  I asked about it in birthing class, I asked my doc how to prevent it, I was very nervous about it happening to me through out. 

Apparently, I must have willed it to happen, b/c get a load of this: I was due with my daughter mid Dec 2004.  I finally went into labor Christmas night, Dec 25, 2004, after a very large, four course, Christmas dinner. 

When I finally got to pushing, apparently, I pushed the entire FOUR COURSE Christmas dinner onto the delivery table first. 

So much so that I cleared the room of all but my poor husband who stayed by my side.  Three different nurses left the room, pretty rapidly, the last actually saying out loud that she was off to get peppermint room freshener spray!  

 

By that point, and in the heat of delivering a baby, I thought it was all hysterical, and continue to think so after, telling my horror story to whomever, in the hopes it’ll make any little thing that happens to them in delivery a heck of a lot better than the return of a full, multi course Christmas dinner! :)

A very good friend is actually an L&D nurse and tells the tale to everyone in her childbirth classes, again, sharing a “low-bar” other mothers can’t help but beat!  That Christmas baby is now 6.5 years old, and I'm proud to say, the delivery of her little sister 3.5 years later, Aug 2008, was poop free. 

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