Childbirth Injury
Video: Episiotomy and Pelvic Floor Health
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This is a video from mamarama who has a number of informative videos on childbirth available at YouTube. They are all worth checking out. This particular video addresses two popular childbirth interventions (episiotomy and cesarean) and the widespread myth that they somehow preserve a tight vagina for future sex purposes. Ugh. Mamarama does a lovely job of dispelling the myths and this is a fun and informative video to watch.
Another episiotomy myth that bears mentioning is the absurd notion that cutting the vaginal opening will prevent tears. That has got to be the most asinine thing I have ever heard. That is like siphoning your gas tank so you don’t run out of gas. It is beyond ridiculous. Please fire your doctors or midwife if they try to throw that garbage at you.
My awful midwife (Gail Heathcote, Grand Rapids, MI) gave me a nasty episiotomy (and a subsequent botch repair job) despite my verbal and written instructions to the contrary. I do not know if I can ever forgive her for the things she did to me and my baby that day. It is not true that midwives will not do episiotomies. Certified Nurse Midwives who deliver babies in hospitals under the same idiotic notions of medially managing childbirth, will in fact perform episiotomies as well as many other cruel and unnecessary procedures in the interest of “moving things along”.
Most homebirth midwives respect a woman’s body, perinatal integrity and her ability to birth and will make every effort to avoid cutting an episiotomy. Virtually eliminating your risk of genital mutilation for the convenience of your OB or med-wife is just one more great argument for homebirth. Until the unlikely day that Certified Nurse Midwives and doctors start respecting our wishes for childbirth, homebirth whether assisted or unassisted is the only real way to avoid an episiotomy. Episiotomies are genital mutilation plain and simple.
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