Ep90: Perineal Tears: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Healing
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
I get lots of questions about perineal tears - how they happen, how to prevent them, and how to heal them - so I want to answer as many of those as I can for you today. In this episode you'll learn how common perineal lacerations are, risk factors that can increase your chances, strategies to prevent them, and how they can affect current and future pregnancies.
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| 0:36.9 | In this episode, you're going to learn about tears that can happen as a result of vaginal birth. |
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| 1:49.2 | Hello, welcome to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 90. Thank you for being here |
| 1:57.1 | with me today. So in this episode of the podcast, I'm talking about vaginal tears or they are more |
| 2:03.3 | appropriately referred to as paroneal tears, and I'll explain that in a minute. These can happen as a |
| 2:08.6 | result of vaginal birth. I've actually had a few people request this recently. So here is the episode |
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