Sentences with phrase «today episiotomies»
Today episiotomies aren't done as often as they once were.
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Today, dissolvable sutures are almost always used when performing an episiotomy.
Today, however, research suggests that routine episiotomies don't prevent these problems after all.
Most doctors today prefer to deliver a child without having to use a vacuum, forceps, or performing an episiotomy.
A loud social campaigner, Kitzinger spoke out against episiotomies, the act of cutting a labouring woman's perineum preemptively in order to avoid severe tearing; she considered it a form of genital mutilation, and many clinicians today say that naturally - occurring tears heal better than incisions and can largely be avoided by careful management.