Posts Tagged ‘episiotomy’

• Episiotomy vs tearing naturally

  Date: 2010.07.24 | Category: Birth | Response: 5

  Women giving birth to their babies in American hospitals have about a one in three chance that they will end up with an episiotomy – an incision in the flesh between the vagina and rectum. One reader asked me to write about the pros and cons of an episiotomy as opposed to natural tearing. I will go one step further, and ask in what circumstances episiotomies are justified at all. Read the rest of this entry »

• Questions nobody should forget to ask a homebirth midwife

  Date: 2010.07.08 | Category: Homebirth | Response: 1

  When you meet a great homebirth midwife you get on well with, it is easy to think that she will be your perfect birth attendant, and that she will help you achieve your dream birth. But just because you want a homebirth, and she can give you one, does not mean that you are necessarily on the same page. This is a list of questions I believe no woman should forget to ask a homebirth midwife before hiring her.

  

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