What is this? An opening in the perinium?!


Question: What is this.? An opening in the perinium.?
Just to warn you, don't come crying to me when you see something you don't want to, okay.?

Anyway, I was watching this birth on YouTube. The woman on the video looked like she had some kind of tear/opening/I-don't-know-whatzit between her vaginal and anus. I'd like to know what that is.

Here's the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch.?v=YPwsqC0Fq...

AGAIN, DON'T CRY TO ME IF YOU WATCHED THE VID WITHOUT READING THE WARNING!Health Question & Answer


Answers:
That's her anus, and what you're seeing there is all the distended blood vessels and other tissues that get pushed out of there when she's almost turning herself inside out to squeeze out that baby.

Her perinium is perfectly intact throughout the delivery, and the big dark dot you can see above that "opening" is a dimple: the vagina and anus are about an inch and a half apart (although during childbirth, the vaginal opening and perinium stretch a *lot* and it can appear to be more than that)... and that dark spot is three inches above her anus.Health Question & Answer

Sometimes the doctor delivering the baby will cut the perineum to make room for the baby's head during birth (episiotomy). In other cases, there's not enough time to make the incision and the perineum tears.

Either way, the mother is sewn back up after the delivery.
(I didn't watch the video... just a guess)Health Question & Answer

Without watching the video, can I guess that it might be an episiotomy.? A surgical incision used to further open the birth canalHealth Question & Answer

I AM NOT watching that. jeeez I put it on for 30 secs, its grosssHealth Question & Answer



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