Posts by Jack Booth9

St. John's Wort oil is honestly a total game-changer for your skin, though you really ought to be careful about stepping out into the sunlight right after applying it.

Modesto said:I gave birth just eight days ago—specifically on Monday the 19th—at the hospital in Chicago.
And yes, I had an episiotomy, just like my first time.
I’m not sure how much authority any of us really have on specific medical topics (for instance, my sisters-in-law seem quite militant about certain things, and I find myself disagreeing with many of their stances), but I can certainly speak to my own experience. With my first baby, who was nearly five pounds, I had several stitches and it took about three weeks to recover. Now, this baby is almost four kilograms, I had a few stitches as well, and I can already say I’m sitting normally and getting through all my daily tasks. I haven't had any issues with my old scars, so I'm hoping I won't have any with this one either. For my first child, I had an epidural, but this one was unmedicated because I didn't even make it to the hospital until the contractions were coming every five minutes. The whole thing lasted about an hour.🙏 The actual stitching was 🙂 🙂, though the doctor went about it with the precision of someone preparing a masterpiece for an exhibition.😁
In my recovery room, there was a woman who suffered a severe tear during delivery, and her situation was nothing short of catastrophic. She couldn't even lift herself up; she could barely even turn onto her side. I truly felt for her. Her baby was relatively small, too. There was also a woman who wasn't cut at all (it seems like they don't just perform episiotomies by default at this hospital, but rather based on their assessment; though personally, I'd much rather be cut than end up like the woman with the tear), and since it was her second child, she was able to sit up perfectly fine, and frankly, I envied her for it.
So, my take is that we shouldn't perform episiotomies on every single woman, but then again, tearing is so easy to happen, and that is definitely not ideal.
A friend of mine tore badly, and now, ten years after giving birth, she still feels pains and tightness whenever the weather changes due to the uneven healing of the wound.
But hey, you be the wise one here.
However, if it isn't inexcusable that the hospital switched to cheap thread two months ago, resulting in nearly every postpartum nurse having to go in and remove stitches? That's just wrong.
As for working up to three days before labor and being expected back at work after only three weeks—in my opinion, that is absolutely terrifying. It's unfair to both the baby and the mother. From a purely medical standpoint, the postpartum period lasts forty-five days; that is how long it takes for the uterus to return to normal, so anything less is excessive. On the other hand, leaving a three-week-old baby without its mother (especially if the mother is breastfeeding) is simply foolish. Of course, I am not referring to those desperate cases where it's necessary for survival.
There is no job in the world worth leaving a newborn for. A baby needs its mother's milk, her words, and her embrace to develop properly.

This is such a fascinating discussion, I just wanted to share my own experiences with you all.
With my first birth, the baby was 3250g and I was cut; all my stitches tore, and I had a seven-week ordeal that I will never forget. With my second baby, 4000g, I wasn't cut and I didn't tear, and I was sitting normally within two days. Both births took place at the Mercy Hospital with only seventeen months between them, so you tell me which experience turned out better.