eeeeewwwwwww!!!!!!

The husband would only be thankful if he was completely unconcerned with his wife’s feelings. It is extremely painful to have intercourse when you are ‘too tight’. This practice is barbaric, almost as barbaric as female circumcision, yet its practiced by so called ‘civilized’ doctors. Makes me sick.

A friend of mine in grad school (for storytelling, not for anything medical) had worked as an OB and he very casually and jokingly referred to this as “The Husband Stitch.”

I think that’s called female genital mutilation. Or assault!

I’ve heard of it being called a “lover’s knot”.
A CNM (‘med’wife) did one on me and I hurt there for a year.
And trust me, doc, husbands are not very thankful when their wives aren’t interested for that long.
But what does gumboots have to do with it?

It’s nice to hear that some doctors still have so much respect for women’s bodies.

Seriously though, did he just compare a woman’s vagina to a mucky boot? Wow.

I was unable to have sex due to extreme (extreme!) pain for nearly four months after I had my daughter, tore, and was stitched back together. I’d manually feel the area where I’d been stitched back up, and it was only at the very top that it hurt that way…I’m becoming increasingly suspicious that the attending OB pulled this stunt on me as well. When I mentioned this to MY OB at a later appointment, concerned that my stitches hadn’t healed properly or I might have an infection, and she just shrugged, smiled and said “oh, that’s totally normal, it won’t hurt eventually. It just may take a long time.”

My former OB cut me when my husband and I were telling him not to. He just did it anyways. I’ve had the rest of my babies at home! stupid gOBlin.

for those of you confused about the gumboot comment, i believe the doc’s meaning is worse than you imagine. the implication is that if he does not stitch her up nice and tight, her husband may just fall in so far that he’d need to be wearing boots to protect himself. (yeah, i’m assuming the o.b. was male; i cannot imagine a woman saying something so crude and insensitive.) truly sick!