Are all mothers circumcised?
Recently there was a post in a major community with the title: All hospitals are killing pregnant women! You and your family were slashed sideways, causing a lot of panic. The article mentioned that doctors do not distinguish right from wrong, and about 99 out of 100 first-time mothers who give birth normally will be \”laterally cut\”. As long as a first-time mother wants to have a normal delivery, everything must be cut horizontally! Circumcision patients will almost always feel itching and pain all year round. More than 85% of circumcision patients think it affects their sexual life. A considerable number of people will become infected and sick, and even it is difficult to fully recover all year round.
The \”lateral incision\” mentioned in the article refers to the \”episiotomy\”, which is to cut the perineum of women who give birth vaginally to assist in childbirth. Yang Jie, deputy director of the Obstetrics Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, said this statement is too alarmist. The need for an episiotomy depends on the condition of the mother and fetus.
There are many real reasons why parturient women now need to undergo lateral incision surgery: modern parturients lack exercise, labor and vaginal contraction are not strong enough, and the fetus cannot be delivered; some pregnant women are overnourished, resulting in oversized fetuses; in addition, there are more and more elderly parturients. These are the reasons why lateral resection is widely used, and it cannot be considered that the mother has undergone lateral resection.
If the mother does not exercise, the fetus will not be transected
Yang Jie said that during childbirth, the fetus has to come out of the uterus, pass through the vagina, and then fall to the ground. Even if it is a natural delivery, the midwife must decide whether to incise the mother\’s perineum based on the mother\’s condition.
Although the vagina can be dilated, if the fetus is too large, the diameter of the fetal head and fetal body can reach 10 centimeters, which is particularly likely to cause perineal tearing of the mother, and in severe cases, sequelae. Genital prolapse and urinary incontinence. Therefore, midwives should perform episiotomy for the mother in time to avoid severe perineal tearing, which will affect healing and easily form scars. In addition, some fetuses have poor fetal position, and doctors need to rotate the fetal head during delivery to make the delivery process go smoothly. At this time, the perineum also needs to be pricked.
Yang Jie said that labor should end two hours after the cervix is fully opened, because the fetus stays in the birth canal for too long, which not only easily damages the mother\’s pelvic floor muscles, but also easily causes vaginal swelling and urinary incontinence in the future, and can also cause fetal deficiency. oxygen, and even intracranial hemorrhage and other phenomena may occur. However, some parturients who are not physically strong enough, or elderly women with heart disease or pregnancy-induced hypertension, cannot end delivery within 2 hours, so they have to undergo a colpotomy.
Yang Jie emphasized the importance of pre-pregnancy check-up. She said that some pregnant women do not pay attention to prenatal gynecological examinations, resulting in inflammation of their private parts. Such women are more likely to suffer vaginal tearing and uneven wounds during childbirth, which affects wound sutures. Therefore, people with gynecological inflammation need to undergo episiotomy.
Hard braces without trimming will affect sex even more
After all, an episiotomy is a surgery. If a vaginal incision is made, will it be difficult to heal as mentioned online? Will it affect the vaginal incision?Affect sex life? Yang Jie said: On the contrary, timely episiotomy is conducive to the early recovery of postpartum sexual life.
If a woman who has had an episiotomy insists on not having surgery, her vagina will be torn to varying degrees, and in severe cases, she may even experience vulvar prolapse and incontinence. After maternal perineal tear, the edge of the wound is very irregular. This will not only prolong the wound healing time, but also easily form scars, making postpartum sex life feel like a foreign body. This scar is larger than an episiotomy scar. For example, the pain of a once perineal tear will last for several weeks, the bleeding will be heavy, and the healed wound will be ugly. If it reaches 3 degrees, the vaginal opening and anus will rupture, and the vagina may pass directly through the anus, which will cause greater problems in sexual life in the future.
An episiotomy is a 4-5 cm long incision made at the external vaginal opening. The incision is small, the suturing is timely, and the healing is fast. Unless the fetal head needs to be rotated, the wound will be relatively large. The incision usually grows in about 5 days and the stitches are removed. No nodules will be left in the vagina, and the mother will not feel like a foreign body during postpartum sexual intercourse.
Additionally, the elastic fibers in a woman’s vagina act like a rubber band. When you pull hard with your hand, it will stretch, and when you let go, it will return to its original shape. After childbirth, the elastic fibers in the vagina will shrink and return to their prenatal state, which will not affect the quality of sex.
If you don’t want to be stabbed, get a pre-pregnancy gynecological examination
Not every pregnant woman must be circumcised. If the mother is not sick, the labor process will be over soon and she should not be stabbed at all. Therefore, if pregnant women really want to avoid being stabbed, they should not try to prevent the operation during labor but should work on it before and during pregnancy.
Yang Jie said that first of all, we should pay attention to pre-pregnancy gynecological examination, check for cervical and vaginal diseases, and make reasonable arrangements for pregnancy. Too many pregnant women are currently pregnant with inflammation, which of course affects delivery. In addition, pregnant women should know how to control their weight, exercise more, and eat properly. Generally speaking, the weight of the fetus should be controlled at about 6 pounds, which is of great benefit to pregnant women, the fetus and delivery.
In summary:
Pregnant women can give birth naturally without vaginal surgery. Midwifery is certainly the best. You cannot blame the doctor for needing a transverse incision. The only way to prevent it is to have a good pre-pregnancy gynecological examination and exercise more to control your weight.