Tearing During Childbirth

TEARING DURING CHILDBIRTH BabyCenter asked its readers to take part in a poll about their experiences of tears during childbirth. Here are the results... Did You Tear During Childbirth? Didn't tear but had an episiotomy (7%) No (9%) Yes (73%) Had an episiotomy, but tore anyway (11%) Results from a poll of 37,647 mums Type of Tear 1st Degree 2nd Degree 3rd Degree 4th Degree Unknown Results from a poll of 33,337 mums If you tore. What were your risk factors ? Did you do anything to prevent it? Had an episiotomy Perineal massage before or during labour 7% 12% Had an assisted delivery 8% Used midwife to help me slow down during pushing 6% Had a big baby Had an episiotomy 16% 12% Baby was born face up Something else 6% 2% Some other risk factor Combination of above ]4% 6% A combination of the above |12% No 61% None 48% Results from a poll of 33,093 mums Results from a poll of 32,957 mums Percentage of women who Percentage of women who experienced tearing during childbirth experienced 3rd Degree 33% tears during childbirth 48% 13% 74% 84% of women who tore said they did not fall under any of the risk factors of women who did not tear had not tear did nothing an episiotomy of women who did to prevent it View the full BabyCenter Poll here 1st Claims More information on 3rd and 4th degree tears can be found here Putting you first @1stClaims Piktochart Specialist Solicitors For Every Need make information beautiful