Another stats thread: Did you tear or have been cut?

[Rochwen]

Something I didn't know before I got pregant (dd1 now 2 years old) was just how common it is for women to tear during childbirth. The ante-natal classes never really mentioned it apart from the need for an episiotomy for forceps deliveries. Now, talking to friends and fellow ante-natal group mums it seems as if almost everyone tears somehow.

What is your experience? Did you tear and/or were cut or did you manage to give birth and still have an intact perenium?

dd - tore, needed a few stitches
ds - didnt tear

ds1 - no tear
ds2 - slight 'grazing', but no stitches.
ds3 - very slight tear. no sitches.

i like to think it was the water births. or maybe my superhuman extra supple skin perhaps. or maybe even karma. who knows?

ds - nasty tear and cut (ventouse)
dd - not a sausage

Tore - 3 stitches

DS1 - tear during ventouse delivery, few stitches but healed quickly.

Dd - tear along scar line from ds1, only few stitches again

DS2, tear along old scar again, plus a bit extra but he was 10lbs 2oz, compared to the other 2's 8lbs and a bit! Healed really quickly though.

DD1, I was episiotomied grisly experience, and the aneasthetic didn't work, and being stitched after was even worse..yikes

DD2 and DD3 no episiotomies, no tears, or tears either

3rd degree tear.. didnt feel it, spinal for stitches.. didnt feel it first poo after labour ooooohh you bugger.. and then for about 4 months after, agony..every time