Midwife's urgent plea to pregnant women over 'embarrassing' delivery room habit

Midwife's urgent plea to pregnant women over 'embarrassing' delivery room habit A midwife with over 11 years of experience has issued an urgent plea to pregnant women who are concerned about delivering their baby in front of medical professionals they don't know A midwife has issued an urgent plea to pregnant women over a delivery room habit people think is "embarrassing" while they're in the middle of labour. Giving birth to a baby is an incredibly difficult and painful task for the mother involved. There is a reason people compare the task of labour and delivery as being like a marathon, and it's due to the physical and emotional toll it takes on a woman's body. It does help, however, that there are specially trained midwives, doctors and students who are able to offer you advice and pain relief if that is what you request. However, one midwife has issued an urgent plea to pregnant women in the UK over a delivery room habit she constantly sees women discussing online as being "embarrassing". Angie Willis, a qualified NHS midwife, registered health visitor, and antenatal educator with over 11 years of clinical experience discussed the topic on her TikTok page, where she is known as The Eco Midwife. She took the time to discuss the things she claims midwives really don't care about in the delivery room, and beyond - including poo. What do midwives not care about in the delivery room? She said: "Five things we don't give a s**t about as midwives. One, hair. Firstly, whether you have a full bush, a semi-bush, a total eclipse of said bush. "Two. Poop. We don't care if you s**t yourself in labour, because there's a great sign that a head's coming down, progress is being made, and we will clear it away as discreetly as you possibly can. Poo is great. Midwives love poo." The midwife then moved on to talk about birth preferences and the way pregnant woman react to pain in the delivery room. Angie said: "We don't care if you scream, shout, F, blind, swear, tell your partner where to shove it. Whatever brings you some degree of comfort in labour, we're happy with. "And from experience, usually the louder that someone gets, the closer to having a baby they are. There are particular noises that happen around that pushing stage for many women, so if you're going into a unit and you hear some shouting and screaming, normally it's because they're about to have their baby in their arms. "Don't be afraid of it. And we don't mind if you change your mind either. We do not hold you accountable for the birth preferences you choose. "You can change your mind at any stage. What we want to know as midwives is how we can support you the best." What do midwives care about in the delivery room? Angie then went on to explain the things midwives actually care about when they meet women in labour or new mums at home. She said: "As midwives, we want you to feel as empowered and informed throughout your entire pregnancy to make the choices that feel right for you. Informed, empowered, supported - that's what we care about as midwives: that you are making the choices that feel right to you, that you feel informed about that decision-making, and that you have the most amount of support. "And in order to achieve this, we need the time to spend with the women, the people, the families within our care. We need more midwives." Dozens of mums commented on the post to share their own experiences of giving birth and how midwives treated them. One person said: "God I was so embarrassed when I could smell [poop emoji] but bless them, you all do an amazing job." A second said: "I was aggressively “shushed” by the midwife while in labour with my first baby. Thankfully the midwives with my 2nd and 3rd were great advocates of 'scream the place down if it helps'." A third said: "My husband and I could hear someone screaming in the next room and we were silently cheering them on!!"