I never thought I'd blog about this, but yes...It finally happened. Natty was so backed up today that I had to "help" her by picking out the poop with a Q-Tip.
I knew things weren't going to go smoothly when she didn't go poo at all yesterday and after pushing for 10 min. there was no movement in the poo coming out. She was so tired of pushing that she curled up on the floor and started to suck her fingers (a sign of self comforting). It wasn't even a question of how gross or smelly I thought it was, I had to help my baby pass the poo or she would be miserable!
It was a messy job, but after picking away at it a bit she was able to push out the rest. After that, I fed her a spoonful of prunes and her next poop was back to normal! Voila, the prunes do work. I think I should feed her a spoonful of prunes everyday just to keep this from happening.
They don't tell you this stuff at the hospital and no one tells you what to do when it happens. I do appologize for the grossness of this blog, but I figure if I went through this, there must be other mothers and fathers wondering what to do and how to prevent this from ever happening again.
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