I feel this might lead to a stupid question but here goes...!
I've quite often seen women comment that getting stitches after delivery was worse than the actual birth itself. This got me wondering, do you not get pain relief when getting stitched up?
I ended up with a 3rd degree tear that required plenty of stitches but I had a spinal for an episiotomy and forceps delivery so was pretty numb when they stitched me up!
Since it seems quite common to tear along an existing episiotomy scar, I've been thinking about it a lot since I'm now expecting my second child and I've now got it in my head that, if I do tear again, they could stitch me back up without giving me anything to numb it first.
Please tell me I'm crazy! Right? Surely they give you something for the pain?
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SunshineSnowflakesDaydreams · 18/07/2018 05:18
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