Avoiding tearing
Hey ladies! Has anyone started taking any supplements, doing any exercises, or anything else to help prevent tearing during birth? Would love to hear what you’re doing or what’s been recommended to you! ❤️
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Perineal massage, 4x a week, not my fave new hobby but hopefully it works.
Honestly most women will tear, it's about 85%. Most of them are 1st and 2md degree tears.
A literature review found that "Perineal massage did not protect women against first, second, third, or fourth degree tears" but it did slightly reduce the risk of episiotomy ( by about 15%).
But then other studies have found that massage along with warm compress significantly reduced the likelihood of 2nd degree tears.
For me, I'm focusing on physiological labour, water birth ideally, warm compress if not, and no coached pushing as this has been shown to increase perineal trauma
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