One of my biggest fears/dreads about the birth is the possibility of Episiotomy. If you haven't heard of this, as I imagine most people who have not had a baby haven't, there's no nice way to describe it - its a cut to the tissue/muscle (perineum) between the vagina and the anus, eek. The midwife running our hospital Childbirth class did not make me feel any better about this by informing us that this cut is often performed with a pair of scissors and no anaesthetic, eek, eek! This is because by the time its apparent its necessary there often isn't time to wait for the anaesthetic to be effective. Maybe by the time you get to that point you have enough pain elsewhere that you don't notice the pain of a scissor cut 'down there', but somehow being cut just seems so much worse to me.
I'm really hoping my perineum is going to prove super stretchy!
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Strange. I saw a program about this a little while ago, but since you didn't want any advice I decided not to tell you.
Apparently 2-3% of all women stretch until they crack, and then become unable to hold their urine and even worse, the poo.
According to the program, in Norway they have reduced the number of women being affected by certain techniques. You may want to check that out.
Züri
There are exercises and massage that are recommended to help you be more stretchy, prevent need for episiotomy, which I am/will be doing. The medical professionals however on the whole seem to think they're a load of bollocks and won't make any difference. Still, can't hurt to do them anyway me thinks, anything that might help is good!
Are these medical professionals women?
Züri
yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk
I'm totally squirming now, I shouldn't be reading this at work!!
and I shouldn't be writing it at work, oh well.
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