Perineal Massage

[alish]

haha nice !?!?!?
i get embarassed about stuff like that! if dh caught me doing that id die!!
thanks for your input xx

*bump* come on ladies

[Khaleesi]

I never did it & i only grazed both times.

[Babyluv]

I got DH to do it but not often enought to make a diff I don't think and I got a tiny tear needing 2 stitches.

[sloane]

i got DH to do it but i found it really uncomfortable. i ended up with an epi so but had an assisted delivery so no idea if it would have worked.

[Artechim]

Didn't do it, didn't tear. I had some internal tearing with DS, but I don't think that any massage would have stopped that?

Personally I think water is the best tear preventer, if you can be in the shower or bath everything will soften up and you will be less likely to tear **NB: makes sense to me, may not have any basis in fact**

[KimmyF]

didn't do it with DS and had an episiotomy (mainly due to his presentatation head shoulder and arm coming at once) didn't do it with DD and wish I did 2nd degree tearing. I too was a bit embarassed to do it, but some others from my hypnonbirthing course did it and had no tearing.
Good luck xx

[alish]

thanks everyone!

im still not completely convinced i should be doing it though

anyone else?