“Mom, there are lights on at the hospital,” Hannah tells me as we drive by. I’m not sure why that should be weird since it is the middle of the day and the sky is full of clouds, but she says it as if it’s something super strange.
“There are always lights on at the hospital Sweetie. There is always someone that needs to go to the hospital, no matter what time of day it is. The hospital is open all day and all night. Sometimes babies are even born in the middle of the night.
“Really?” She asks me, wanting to hear more.
“Yeah, remember before Daniel was born, I was in the hospital all night? I didn’t have him in the middle of the night, I had him in the morning, but some ladies have babies at night.”
“So which one of us did you do a poo with when we were coming out?” She asks me with interest.
I try unsuccessfully to contain my laughter that is slightly laced with mortification. “How did you know about that?”
The cheeky eavesdropper
“I heard you telling someone a long time ago.” Probably The Jess or Romana. I don’t generally go around telling people that.
“That was when Daniel was coming out,” I tell her between laughs.
“Why did you poo?”
“Well, you have to push really hard to get a baby out, and if you don’t do a poo before it’s time for the baby to come out, then with all that pushing, a poo comes out too.”
Note to self, don’t talk about stuff when Hannah is even remotely in earshot.
And FYI, it’s normal to poo during birth. Midwives take care of it as it happens and the mom is usually none the wiser. The only reason I know is because I felt some wiping while I was pushing. A giant baby head nestled against your perineum kind of trumps any feeling of poop coming out.
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