The association El Parto es Nuestro promotes a campaign for the episiotomy to be eliminated as a routine practice in childbirth.
It seems that today, the cut to enlarge the orifice of the vagina that is made at the time of the expulsion is made "by decree", that is, without giving the woman a choice, whether she agrees or not, and as a mandatory measure.
It seems that there is nothing we can do to avoid it, but there are some ways to try to save us from episiotomy. From Babies and more we have advised some exercises and massages to strengthen the pelvic floor and make it more elastic so that at the time of giving birth it is less likely to be practiced.
According to EPN “the not so innocent little court” could be avoided if we were given the choice of the position in which we want to give birth, since in the vertical delivery, or sitting the baby's own weight on the vagina facilitates expulsion.
From EPN they see episiotomy as an aberrant medical practice that in some years will seem like a barbarity that will be performed in childbirths.
I don't know if it will be that way, maybe, but what I think is that it should be the last resort to turn to, with the right to refuse and not a routine practice. Although I want to believe that in some cases doctors resort to it when there is no other option and that it has its reason for being.
In my first birth I had no choice, nobody asked me whether or not I wanted the “scissors help” to give birth and really the postpartum has been quite painful. By the second birth I was already prepared and I begged the gynecologist not to do it if it was not necessary, and I was saved.
The association has a site called Episiotomia.info where you can find news, articles and the manifesto that promulgates the elimination of the use of episiotomy.
