I had a natural birth with Kyson and no stitches. These stitches are well and truly on the inside. They are done with dissolvable stitches and the one that came out had dissolved where it would have been through tissue (ie. the knotted bit and about 4-5mm on each side of the knots were not yet dissovled). The stitch material used was fairly thick and I'm not surprised that the others haven't fully dissolved and come out yet (based on my surgical vet nursing experience lol).

Everything I'm reading on the internet says that IVF is a cut and stitch free procedure. I can only imagine that I got the stitches due to something going wrong, but no one mentioned anything after the egg collection. I actually rang my nurse two days after collection because I was in more pain than I had expected (was still doubled over a bit and couldn't walk standing straight up), and was told it was normal to be in more pain a couple of days later because the pain relief in the anaesthetic had worn off. Still no mention of anything involving stitches then.

I'm definitely going to give them a call tomorrow, although they only answer the phones between 1-2pm on a Sat. I'm also a little worried because AF had just finished and I used tampons for the entire AF. I'm sure that was probably a bad thing when you have stitches in there...