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• Health: Reproductive Health: Pregnancy and Birth: Complications: Obstetric Fistula  (13)

About Episiotomy - A collection of links to articles on the subject plus information on using exercise to avoid and recover from the procedure..

Baby Center: Episiotomy - The how and why, including commonly asked questions and their answers. Includes user submitted comments on personal experiences with the procedure..

Benefits and Risks of Episiotomy - Text of the manuscript subtitled "A Review of the English-Language Literature Since 1980" by R.J. Woolley which summarize the findings of studies on the subject..

Birth Psychology: Epsiotomy - A description of the procedure, its purposes, and women's responses to it..

Episiotomy: Ritual Genital Mutilation in Western Obstetrics - An article denouncing the practice of routinely cutting the perineum during hospital deliveries in the United States with abstracts for related studies..

Much Ado About a Little Cut - Article from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggesting that routine episiotomy is no longer advisable..

Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: Episiotomy - Summary of significant points, references, and abstracts from related studies from this book on obstetric myths..

Parent's Place: Episiotomy - Article on the pros and cons of the procedure..

Perineal Massage: Your How-To Guide - Article on how performing perineal massage may allow the mother to give birth without an episiotomy or laceration..

Perineal Protection - Avoiding Tears and Episiotomy - Suggestions for avoiding the procedure from midwives, including the use of perineal massage and birth stools..

NPR : Study Questions Value of Episiotomies - A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds no benefit from episiotomies. Melissa Block talks with Dr. Katherine E. Hartmann, who is lead author of the study. [3:53 streaming audio broadcast] (May 4, 2005).