The 'Husband Stitch' Leaves Women in Pain and Without Answers [2018]

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-husband-stitch-real-stories-episiotomy/

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Possibly because the “husband stitch” isn’t officially defined medically, there are no clinical studies of it. Searches on PubMed and ScienceDirect (two large research databases) yield just one paper, which investigates Brazil’s high episiotomy rate (94 percent in 2004). Doctors interviewed by the research team openly refer to the use of the “ponto do marido”—husband stitch—as “intended to make the vaginal opening even tighter after delivery.”

Just one paragraph from the article that blows that suggestion right out of the water.

This isn’t women not reporting to the right authorities causing the issues. It’s systemic misogyny.

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If you’re still in healthcare, maybe you could take this conversation as an opportunity to be more open-minded when speaking with patients that have grievances rather than tell them that what they’re experiencing isn’t true.

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