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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Some preventative measures that may help are:
• Chose a Doctor who doesn’t do routine episiotomies. (Ask your Doctor how often he finds it necessary to do episiotomies)
• Good nutrition (healthy skin stretches more easily)
• Do your Kegels (exercise for your pelvic floor muscles)
• Prenatal perineal massage
• Slow controlled pushing instead of directed pushing by Doctors and midwives. (Only push when you feel the urge).
• Birth off the bed – not on your back.
Proof that the above help, please.
i am a medical student soon to qualify,and have witnessed first hand many surgical procedures.
episiotomies consist of a diagonal incision of very taut tissue beginning at the anal pole of the vaginal opening. traumatic tears track straight posteriorly and tear the vagina and may track to damage the anal sphincter,in this regard intervention succeeds in reducing the worst case to a shorter safer scar.
epidurals reduce response to contractions,negate the natural help of gravity in the squatting position which is normal in mammals,and i dislike the idea intensely.babies are born sluggish and respond less quickly to the first breath.
diet does indeed help skin elasticity,and hence the ease of birth.
regarding exercise : prenatal strenghtening of pelvic muscle is well advised ,as many years later it stops prolapse of the uterus through the vagina.And generally it is a healthy exercise in males and females,it is a prescribed practice in advanced yoga.
i am glad this topic was raised and the article seems well researched and accurate.
Chose a Doctor who doesn’t do routine episiotomies. (Ask your Doctor how often he finds it necessary to do episiotomies) - this is common sense. The 'proof' is in the answer your consultant gives you - either they do these routinely or not....
• Good nutrition (healthy skin stretches more easily) - I don't believe there has been any research on this item but it's reasonable to assume that women who are healthy and have good nutrition would have healthier skin....
• Do your Kegels (exercise for your pelvic floor muscles) - prevents pelvic floor damage and speeds recovery
• Prenatal perineal massage - has been shown in several studies to be beneficial
• Slow controlled pushing instead of directed pushing by Doctors and midwives. (Only push when you feel the urge). Recent research has shown that directed pushing shortens labour by about 15 minutes but increases the likelihood of perineal damange. Think of it logically - when the skin has time to stretch and expand it's less likely to tear but when a mother is instructed to push her baby through tissues that are not ready then injury is more likely.
• Birth off the bed – not on your back - this makes pushing harder (you are pushing uphill) It also restricts blood flow to your baby.
Panel Recommends Curb in Episiotomy
Experts Say Procedure Contributes to Incontinence in Women
By Todd Zwillich
WebMD Medical News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Dec. 12, 2007 -- A routine procedure performed on up to 1 million American women per year may be needlessly contributing to incontinence in those women, an expert panel concluded Wednesday.
The procedure, known as episiotomy, involves cutting tissue between the lower vagina and the anus when women are in childbirth. While it is often used to aide delivery in cases of fetal distress or complicated childbirth, its use in routine births should be curtailed, the experts say.
"The routine use of this procedure should be seriously reconsidered," says C. Seth Landefeld, who led an expert consensus panel on fecal and urinary incontinence sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
The procedure runs the risk of damaging the anal muscles, which in turn may cause up to 1,000 cases of fecal incontinence per year, says Katherine Hartman, MD, PhD, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
"It has a proven risk of damage," Hartman says. "The connection is a pretty direct link."
Incontinence is the catch-all term for the involuntary loss of urine or stool. The risk of fecal and urinary incontinence increase with age; they are more common in women than men.
But both sexes are affected: It is estimated 5% of adults 65 to 74 and 20% of those over 85 experience fecal incontinence. One in five women and one in 20 men are estimated to suffer urinary incontinence by the time they're 45, according to the report.
(What are some of your most embarrassing incontinence moments? Share anonymously on WebMD's Womenâs Health: Friends Talking board.)
Incontinence Is Undertreated
While the problem is widespread, it is vastly undertreated, the panel warns.
"The shame, embarrassment, and stigma associated with these conditions pose significant barriers to seeking professional treatment, resulting in many persons who suffer from these conditions [going] without help," the report states.
In addition, most health plans don't pay doctors to do an independent evaluation for incontinence or counsel on weight loss, exercise, or specialized pelvic floor exercises that may help prevent it, says Landefeld, who directs the Center on Aging at the University of California, San Francisco.
And while articles in women's magazines often include suggestions for women to perform Kegel exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, experts say those exercises are frequently done incorrectly.
They urge more formal training for women to teach them how to isolate the pelvic floor muscles in a way that can be effective against urinary incontinence.
"Many women and men and many practitioners don't have a good idea of what the pelvic floor is," says Eileen Hoffman, MD, an associate professor of medicine at New York University. "You have muscles down there that if you don't have tone in [them], you're much more likely to have incontinence."
A high proportion of incontinence cases occur in nursing homes, according to the report. But instead of physical problems, many cases occur simply because elderly residents don't get to the bathroom in time.
The panel urged new policies that increase staffing at nursing homes so that residents don't sit, sometimes for hours, needing to use the toilet.
"That is probably more expensive then just letting them sit there in diapers," Landefeld says.
having had the surgery- and that is what it becomes when you have an episitomy can I just say this:
What are diapers?
and stigmatising the issue by focussing on the biological is not helping survivors, now if you
want to contextualise the issue politically-that would be interesting , otherwise, suggest
a problem page or website link-cos I am sick of reading negatives.
Not all episitomies are like the study above- but generally, yes they cause damage, limitation
and depressions.