In a study reported in the May 26th issue of the British Medical Journal, Dr. Georgina Stamp, from the University of South Australia in Adelaide, and colleagues randomized 1340 pregnant women to receive massage and stretching of the perineum during the second stage of labor or supportive measures only. The massage group did have fewer third-degree tears, but the study did not have sufficient power to measure this rare outcome. Postpartum pain, dyspareunia, resumption of sexual intercourse, and urinary and faecal incontinence and urgency also did not differ between the groups. Com Web Ring. All rights reserved.
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