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- From: mayal@microsoft.com (Maya Lerch)
- Subject: Re: episiotomies.....your doctor is lazy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.175607.98@microsoft.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:56:07 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1426@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> <BxtuKG.EuL@acsu.buffalo.edu> <owens.721958559@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
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- My midwife told me the best way to avoid an episiotomy was massaging
- the perineum daily with some sort of oil (I can't remember exactly
- what kind but obviously it was non-petroleum), gently stretching the
- area as you massage. It seems to have worked for me--my second baby
- weighed 9-1/2 pounds and had a very large head, but I had no problems
- getting him out without an episiotomy.
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- - Maya
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