Have you lined up your pregnancy care team? Successfully navigated through insurance and other minefields and found providers you can trust and communicate with? If your pregnancy is considered high risk, you may have one more step in the process — adding a maternal-fetal medicine specialist (MFM), also called a perinatologist, to your team. What […]
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Chanel Dubofsky is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing about women's health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice can be found in Modern Fertility, Lilith, Rewire, Cosmopolitan, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @chaneldubofsky.
Third Trimester
Meet Your Perineum: Expert Advice on Episiotomy and Tearing During Delivery
By Chanel DubofskyIf you’re pregnant or planning to be pregnant, chances are you’ve heard stories about what might happen to your nether regions during a vaginal birth. Perhaps you’ve heard about tearing during delivery or even heard the term episiotomy. Tearing naturally during labor is super common (over 80% of women will experience tearing to some degree). […]
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