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  • Des10ed2b
  on Nov. 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM

• and enema is a liquid in an applicator which you insert into your anus and then expel the liquid. it makes you have to poop and is often used for severe constipation.
  

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  • miss_hughes
  on Nov. 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM

• ah. like castor oil in a way. just used at the other end of the body.
  

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  and enema is a liquid in an applicator which you insert into your anus and then expel the liquid. it makes you have to poop and is often used for severe constipation.
  

  
  

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  • doulala
  on Nov. 7, 2009 at 6:36 PM

• Yah.   But as pregnant, I have used them both and don't feel that they really work similarly.
  

  The enema is like shower out the rectum.    It floods the stool and that softened stool comes out easily, like diarrhea.  

  With castor oil, the intestines are contracting more violently, like a uterine contraction.   I also describe it as projectile vomiting (out the other end) because of the intensity and force.   (That intestinal contracting stimulates the uterine contractions.)
  

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  ah. like castor oil in a way. just used at the other end of the body.

  Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

  ~Barbara Katz Rothma

  
  

  When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change. -Mongan

  
  

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  • miss_hughes
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM

• ah ok. i tried castor oil with my DD and never got diarrhea from it. or BMs of any kind. did get contractions though. but just never all the nasty things that could come from using the castor oil. i guess i lucked out
  

  Quoting doulala:
  
  

  Yah.   But as pregnant, I have used them both and don't feel that they really work similarly.
  

  The enema is like shower out the rectum.    It floods the stool and that softened stool comes out easily, like diarrhea.  

  With castor oil, the intestines are contracting more violently, like a uterine contraction.   I also describe it as projectile vomiting (out the other end) because of the intensity and force.   (That intestinal contracting stimulates the uterine contractions.)
  

  Quoting miss_hughes:
  
  

  ah. like castor oil in a way. just used at the other end of the body.

  
  

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  • kcangel63
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 1:14 PM

• Evening Primrose ripens the cervix and prepares it for labor and birth.  I take 6 capsules a day starting at 36 weeks.  It does not induce you.  It helps the cervix soften over time.  I took it with my last baby, and my labor was 4 hours instead of 8-12 as with my others. 

   

  I think the enema has been explained sufficiently.  I've not had one. 

  
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  • lovemykids73
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 1:19 PM

• Some hospitals ask that you have an enema before you come to deliver the baby so you don't poop on the delivery table, but there is no way I would have one done for that reason.

  

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