This is the longest shortest time from WNYC. I'm Hillary Frank. We are back with the second

episode of our Sex and Parenthood series. In our last episode, we got your questions

answered by Dan Savage and Jane Marie. And on that show, Dan and Jane agreed that all

parents who are not ready to have sex should get a pass for the first year. So even if

your doctor and midwife gives you the green light at that standard six week checkup, they're

saying if you don't feel up for it, moms or dads, you get a pass. But what if a year comes

and goes and you're still in pain from something that happened in childbirth? Then what?

That is what we're going to talk about today. There are lots of ways you can get injured

in childbirth. And as I'm saying this, I realize it might sound super scary to anyone

who hasn't had a baby. And yeah, it is scary. But the thing that I've come to learn is almost

every childbirth injury can be healed. I'm going to say that again, almost every child

birth injury can be healed. This is so important to know. I myself had a really rough child

birth injury. It is the reason that I started this podcast in the first place. You know,

I know what it is like to feel completely hopeless. I saw six doctors over three years

before I found the help I needed. It should not have taken that long. The answer wound up

being pretty simple. Today, we're going to hear one woman's story of dealing with a child

birth injury. And then we're going to hear from someone who heals those kinds of injuries.

And just so you know, we are going to be going in depth on vaginal injuries, I think in

a healing way. But I just wanted to say that upfront. And we're going to be doing a cool

event next week where you can learn more about your pelvic pain if you're having it.

We're going to talk more about that at the very end of this episode. So stay with us.

And for this episode, we asked you guys to send in your stories about child birth injuries

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