On birth tears or; The Many Ways to Use Comfrey

[norwegian_wood]

As some of you know, I had a second degree tear with Fiery's birth. It didn't hurt at all, and I didn't have the whole 'ring of fire' experience, so I wouldn't have even known that I tore if I hadn't looked. After I discovered it, I was pretty freaked out, because I didn't know what I know now about healing. So I share this in hopes of empowering

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[muirichinnahali]

hi, i just linked to this post through naturalbirth.... great post!
i have a question though. do you have any sources that back "Blondes and redheads are much more likely to tear than brunettes of any nationality"? my midwife tried scaring me and told me that i'd bleed waaay more because i'm a redhead. i immediately came home to research and i couldn't find anything to back that up. the only study even remotely similar that i found said redheads experience pain differently (but even in this study, the sample size was tiny). so i'm wondering if these ideas are just long perpetuated old wives tales or if there is any grain of truth. anecdotally, i did tear a tiny bit internally. but it healed nice and quick.
thanks for any imput :)

[muirichinnahali]

lol.... "iNput"

[gen_here]

I just came here by way of the naturalbirth link, and I'm curios about this, too. I'm a redhead who tore both times (first pretty badly with lots of blood loss from birth, second minor along one of the first tears and minor blood loss that I attribute to nettle leaf in my RRL tea). I find these possible associations fascinating - hair color, stretch marks listed above.

[xelasminin]

i was wondering if you still had the info on how to get a stubborn patient to say yes?

I looked in babyslimes user info where I knew she had the link, ut it says no such entry....