What no one tells you...

A long birth story is in the works, but if you'll excuse my one-handed, holding-baby, typing, I'd like to spill some proverbial beans about child birth. In short, it's not bad. There are wonderful pain management options (of which I whole-heartedly partook--is that a word?) and I had a pleasant experience. What has taken me by complete surprise was how completely scary and horrible the post-baby pooping is. There, I said it. While I chose a medicated child birth, I had no option for a medicated poop birth. As a result, I feel as though I've experienced both natural child...er poop..birth as well as medicated and the medicated child birth was so much less scary and more pleasant.

My advice to anyone who is about to give birth and whom I've just scared the bejeezus out of: fiber, fiber, fiber. Eat it, drink it and pray.