is pooping a lot normal during early pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

I am definitely more regular during this pregnancy. It probably helps that I take prenatals, at best, irregularly, but I eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. The iron in prenatals is a big culprit in constipation from what I hear. During the last pregnancy, I had a couple of weeks of loose stools. Went to a GI about it and had them do all kind of tests only to have them come back with "IBS" (code for: we don't know what the hell is wrong with you) before I finally realized that it started around the same time I'd switched to a different prenatal. I switched back and my poop went back to normal.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Diarrhea or sometimes just lots of poops (>5day) in first and part of second trimester for both of my pregnancies. Actually my first pregnancy, I'd wake at 3am every night for a big diarrhea- pain in the butt!

[Anonymous]

Yes. The thing that shocked me most about pregnancy was the unholy gas during the first trimester. Digestion was out of whack. It passed. (Pun intended!)

[Anonymous]

Yeah I have also been pooping 3+ times a day, sometimes normal consistency and other times it's diarrhea.

[Anonymous]

A lot of people have the opposite issue...but I'm also in your camp, had this with #1 too.

[Anonymous]

Yes!!!

[Anonymous]

yep. (I think its more common to get constipated, as folks say, but this is not out of the norm.)

[Anonymous]

Oh yay! Not just me!!

[Anonymous]

Apparently the pregnancy vitamins can make you uber regular!!!

[Anonymous]

Yes! It happened to me!

[Anonymous]

This is so funny because I was constipated with my first pregnancy and with this one I have to go to the bathroom at least twice a day. Each pregnancy is different.

[Anonymous]

I've always popped abnormal. Like once or twice every week or two. But for about a week now I've pooped 2x a day may we more some days Nd I found out 4 days ago I was pregnant. This never happened with my first pregnancy, I was extremely constipated with her.so this is totally different. Lol

[Anonymous]

I'm 9 dpo and a bfn this evening. I've noticed the last few days I've been pooping 2-3 x a day, which is highly unusual for me. In fact this has never happened. My fingers are crossed. I did have a ridiculous amount of ewcm around 6 dpo and had a horrible lower back ache. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 9 dpo and a bfn this evening. I've noticed the last few days I've been pooping 2-3 x a day, which is highly unusual for me. In fact this has never happened. My fingers are crossed. I did have a ridiculous amount of ewcm around 6 dpo and had a horrible lower back ache. Ugh.

Bfn at 10 dpo. I hate myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I got loose bowels as a form of morning sickness both times around. I have mild IBS when not pregnant, though, so this may not be super common, though I've heard of it before. In fact, I think there have been other threads about this.

I have been pooping normally (once a day usually within an hour or so of having my coffee) but I also have IBS. No constipation for me, no nausea and no morning sickness.