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Whenever I start to almost kind of sort of think it mayyyy not be that bad to give birth, and it would for sure be wonderful to have a baby, I read something like this. YIKES! And YUCK! I have the heebie jeebies all over again! I have an older friend who is a midwife, and I always ask her so many questions about how doctors have to CUT (with scissors?), and you could stretch, and is it better to just get the slice, in case it tears or ruptures, etc. A lot of moms have told me that as soon as you have the baby, you just magically forget all about the exruciating pain. But this article shows that it's not so. You're still a bleeding, raw mess for a long time after! And could it ever really go back to normal? Would men ever consider becoming fathers if they knew that a sensitive part of their anatomy would have to be cut into---sometimes without anesthetic--and then sewn back up?? I wonder. In short, as a newlywed, I feel like running for the hills!!
