How bad was your tear during your delivery?

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Hi ladies! So I had a rough delivery (my first) Induced a week after due date, cervical catheter, maxed out on the Pitocin, they broke my water, cervical membrane stripping 3x,  3 hours of actual pushing, and finally had to use the vacuum to get my son out, resulting in 3rd degree tears after 33 total hours of labor and later physical therapy to heal. 
Fun times. Anyways, I was curious if anyone else had more extreme tearing (3rd or 4th degree) or not.

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I didn’t tear with my boy and he was big so I have hopes that maybe my future births will be the same. When I had him I had only pushed half his head out and they were going to cut me but as they prepared the scissors I pushed once more and he surfed out on a wave of my waters. I joked that my vag saw the scissors and was like aw hellll nooo!

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My dr didn’t tell me the degree of the tear but it was bad. I ripped up on both sides and it connected at the top. The dr made a joke “aw you have a frowney face”. Lol

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My doctor cut me with my first. He never even mentioned it was a possibility, while I was in the middle of pushing he said "I have to cut you, I have other babies to deliver." I was like okay? I didnt realize how miserable the healing time would be. With my second, I walked into L&D telling the midwife on call "Do Not Cut Me!"

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With my daughter I had a 4th degree tear and my muscle in my butt retracted so they had to go in and pull it out and it was crazy. I literally couldn’t feel anything after getting my epidural no contractions nothing so I was solely pushing when the monitor “said” I was having a contraction. With my son I only had like barely a 1 degree tear thankfully!

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I didnt tear with my son but they put a stitch in the top anyways because it was on the verge of tearing. She had me go really slow when pushing though and when his head was through she had me go even slower so I didnt tear. Hopefully this next one I dont tear

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My first birth was pretty similar to yours. 3rd degree tears as well.

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3rd degree

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😂😂😂 at “fun times”

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Only suffered a first degree tear with my first labor. My doctor said I didn’t necessarily require stitches but gave me two anyway and they dissolved within a week. I hope this labor goes the same or that I don’t tear at all

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Honestly, if you can avoid induction and all the risks/other interventions that come along with it, you can decrease your chances of an instrumental delivery and more severe tearing. Was there a reason you were induced other than being 41 weeks?
I had a second degree tear with my son, but it couldn’t totally been avoided. Bleh, frustrating. Things will be much different the next time around

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