EBB 216 - The Evidence on Prenatal Perineal Massage for Preventing Tears in Childbirth with Dr. Rebecca Dekker

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are continuing our series on protecting the perineum by talking about the evidence on whether prenatal perineal massage is effective at preventing perineal tears during childbirth. We’ll also discuss the importance of critically analyzing research, and what “predatory open access publishing” has to do with some of the research on perineal massage! Head's up... if you haven't listened to EBB Episode 206 yet, I recommend listening to that episode first, since it covers introductory information about perineal tears. Content warning: Discussion of perineal tears during childbirth, severe tears, obstetric violence, and episiotomy. Resources:

For a full list of scientific references, see the blog post that goes along with this episode
Check out Episode 206 of the EBB Podcast to learn about Perineal Tears and Avoiding Episiotomy and Episode 210 to learn about warm compresses and hands-on vs. hands-off techniques
Go to our YouTube channel to see video versions of all our podcasts!
Visit https://evidencebasedbirth.com/childbirth-class/ to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class
Take a continuing education class on this topic (and earn a contact hour) by joining the EBB Professional Membership here: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/become-pro-member/
Check open access journals to see if they are on beallslist.net (https://beallslist.net/standalone-journals/) as a potential predatory journal.
Resource for authors to determine whether they should submit to an open access journal: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about the evidence on prenatal
0:05.1	peroneal massage and whether or not it's effective at preventing perineal tears
0:09.8	during childbirth. Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast.
0:17.0	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:22.0	Base Birth.
0:23.0	Join me each week as we work together
0:25.0	to get evidence-based information
0:27.0	into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:31.0	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. the Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode of the Evidence Space Birth
0:44.6	podcast. My name is Dr. Rebecca Decker, pronouns she-her and I will be your teacher
0:49.7	for today's episode. Today I'm so excited to bring you more evidence-based
0:54.5	information to you about perineal tears and some research on a method that is
0:59.3	sometimes used with the intent of preventing perineal tears and that is perineal massage during pregnancy.
1:06.0	Before we get started I wanted to let you know that we will be talking about some topics including tears,
1:11.0	severe tears from the vagina to the rectum, eccentric violence, and episiotomies.
1:17.2	So today's episode is a third in a series we're doing this year called Protecting the Paraneum. In the first episode
1:24.0	which was episode 2006 of the E.B. Podcast. I talked with you about what are
1:28.9	perennial tears? What are the factors that can increase your risk of having a tear during childbirth?
1:34.8	The health consequences of tears and why it's so important to avoid an episiotomy?
1:39.8	And in the second episode of the series in episode 210 I talked about warm compresses and the
1:45.2	hands-on versus hands-off techniques for preventing tears.
1:50.2	If you haven't listened to those episodes already or watched them on YouTube, I'd encourage you go back and listen before moving forward,
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