The Most Disgusting Things About Birth – From You!

“The sonic boom fart I did in my OB’s face as I was pushing lol”

Katie M (Facebook)

“Looking up into the light into the theatre which has mirrors in it and seeing that cut fully open.”

Paulette Teresa A (Facebook)

“The pooping part, why did no one find the need to warn me of this embarrassment!”

Tracey B (Facebook)

“The mess afterwards!  No one told me it would be like a crime scene.  Not that I cared then as I had a beautiful new bubba monopolising my thoughts.  But man, what a mess!  Why anyone would have a home birth is beyond me for the simple reason I wouldn’t want to have to clean up all that gunk afterwards lol”

Kath S (Facebook)

“The placenta. That shit is gross! Silly curious me asked to see it after my first baby.  Never again. The most awkward was having my midwife who is also a good friend sit at the end of the bed after the birth of my second and tug on the placenta trying to encourage it to come out. Awkward.”

Melanie B (Facebook)

“When the doctor and midwives came in wearing gum boots and plastic aprons. I thought, ‘what the hell is going on, what’s going to happen’. Then after my son was born and they were helping me into the bathroom, I looked back at the bed, and the floor under it – and I understood”.

Jennifer G (Facebook)

“Trying to walk around after my water broke, what’s up with the tuna water that never ends?”

Denise O (Facebook)

“Having my Mum shave me to prepare for my emergency C-section”

Shannon B(Facebook)

Now these are two men watching a video of a woman giving birth:

So, how do you feel about giving birth right now?