Pushing vs Pooping

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My Essential Birth

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Actually, instead of putting them up against each other, we should probably be putting them side by side since pushing out a baby and having a bowel movement are oddly similar. We are going to walk you through what it looks...and sounds like...when it's go-time, as well when it's time to wait a little longer before pushing (even though some well-meaning people in the room may be encouraging you otherwise). Pushing is natural and moms should be able to tune into their bodies and babies, medica...

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1:03.6	review, and I absolutely love podcasting. Courtney and I talk about it all the time. We are teachers
1:08.9	by nature. Instead of it being so like
1:11.7	structured and, you know, nice and orderly as it is in the birth course, it's nice to just like
1:17.1	talk to women and, yes, have a community that you're speaking to. So thank you so much. Now, you would
1:22.1	think that with how much we're going to mention the word poop in this episode that we're talking
1:25.8	about like newborn poop or baby poop or poop when you're pregnant. But in this episode that we're talking about like newborn poop or baby poop
1:27.8	or poop when you're pregnant but no guys we're talking about pushing push it real good we get a lot
1:35.5	of questions about this how do I push I just I'm worried I'm not going to know what to do
1:39.8	and I'll be honest with you there's a lot that we would want to show you, I mean, demonstration,
1:46.1	but you're only listening to us and you can't see us. Thank goodness, because we're both in sweats
1:50.7	today. But we're going to try and give you as much information as we can through listening
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