If you’re preparing for a vaginal birth, it’s to be expected that you might worry how your vagina and surrounding tissues will fare. Although perineal tears occur in most deliveries – especially first ...

After giving birth, you might have some scar tissue from tears that occur during childbirth. You may also experience more dryness because your levels of estrogen drop. Your vagina may also feel wider, ...

Pregnant women who previously birthed by caesarean section are presented with a choice: whether to try for a vaginal birth, or book in for a repeat caesar. Those mulling over a vaginal birth are ...

While most expectant mothers are excited, many are also anxious about giving birth, especially first-time mothers. Perineal trauma is something many expectant mums are fearful about. It is hard to ...

It sounds like a crude joke: A doctor stitches up a woman extra tight following childbirth while throwing a wink at her husband. Yet “the husband stitch” — when a doctor provides an “extra” stitch ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Asians are nine times as likely as other women to experience severe tearing of the skin around the vagina during childbirth, Israeli researchers report. They also found ...

Postpartum pain occurs after a woman gives birth and can have several causes. Oftentimes, when a woman gives birth, she either tears her perineum or her doctor must make a cut in it to widen the ...

Childbirth puts the perineum, the area between the vagina and anus, under immense pressure. During vaginal delivery, this tissue stretches to allow the baby to pass. Doctors sometimes make a small ...

A new mum has gone viral on TikTok after revealing her unique tip for reducing the risk of perineal tearing during birth – using a warm, olive oil compress. Speaking to her followers the new mum, who ...

“I know so many women deal with this quietly. You’re not alone,” she wrote ...

Carrying—and giving birth—to a child is a life-changing experience but it can also have both short- and long-term effects on your body.