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Anonymous
An episiotomy is a surgical cut made just before delivery in the muscular area between the vagina and the anus (the area called the perineum) to enlarge your vaginal opening.
Obstetricians used to cut episiotomies routinely to speed delivery and to prevent the vagina from tearing, particularly during a first vaginal delivery. Many experts believed that the "clean" incision of an episiotomy would heal more easily than a spontaneous tear. But a great many studies over the last 20 years have disproved this theory, and most experts now agree that the procedure shouldn't be done routinely.
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