Comments on: “You Can Either Tear Or I Can Cut You…”

By: Skyfire

Skyfire — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:19:11 +0000

Me neither! 8lb, 13oz.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:04:40 +0000

Umm, my first was 9 lbs. and I had no tearing whatsoever.

By: nicole

nicole — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:12 +0000

glad my doc said the following when I asked about his views on episiotomies “Episiotomies are senseless 99% of the time. No need to butcher routinely” Good man! I had no tearing at all.

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:51:44 +0000

I was a first time mother when I birthed a 10lb 7oz baby without being cut or tearing.
I still contend that OBs are sadists.

By: Reble

Reble — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:14:36 +0000

My mother got this when she gave birth to me. She had some tearing, but nothing severe. The doctor made his poor intern put a stitch into every single tiny tear all the way around, just out of mean-spiritedness.

By: Trina

Trina — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:03:07 +0000

I’m a FTM, and I delivered my baby without an episiotomy. I didn’t tear at all.

By: Terra

Terra — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:31:25 +0000

Apparently she’s never met a lot of us! My first birth didn’t result in a tear and my midwife never would have but me. There’s this great thing out there called perineal massage!

By: Knitted in the Womb

Knitted in the Womb — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:54:52 +0000

I was leafing through a copy of “Pregnancy for Dummies” earlier today, and what it had to say about episiotomy is that it PREVENTS more severe tearing. This was written by Dr.s from Cedars Sinai Medical Center, published in 2003 if I remember correctly!

I determined that it was WRITTEN by dummies.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:24:21 +0000

I didn’t tear!! Ridiculous.

By: A.

A. — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:45:47 +0000

I just had my first baby recently, and while I did tear, they were first-degree labial tears – I shudder to think how much worse I’d be feeling if I’d also had an episiotomy!