Share 'Tips on protecting your perineum before and during birth'

Pelvic floor injury is not a given in childbirth. You can stack the odds in your favour of emerging from childbirth whole, healthy and intact. Perineal trauma in birth has become so common place that women almost expect that they will need some 'help' in this last very important part of birth. Hollywood has us convinced that all that purple faced pushing is normal. The 2nd stage of labor becomes…