Giving birth after bad tear first time?

[PaiytonsMummy]

I've had two 3rd degree tears, and my son was more than lb smaller than daughter. Dr said i push the babies head out too fast, not that i could control it. I was also told that's it's very likely I'll tear again, so I'm having a section with this one, in 10 days eek!

My midwife did say she'd never seen a woman with 2 previous 3rd degree tears before, so i guess it's pretty rare. If i was to try a natural birth i would ask to be cut to see if that made a difference. But with all my scar tissue, i doubt it would make a difference.

 

[ohbananas]

I had a 2nd degree tear with my first she was 6 lbs 14 ounces, no tear with my second and that was with my water breaking 44 hours beforehand, and she was 8 lbs 1 oz.

The first one it took me 5 pushes to get her out, the second it literally took 1 push.

 

[junebabycomin]

I'm so scared of this too...had an episiotomy and a 3rd degree tear after pushing for 4 hours to get LO out. MW called a doc in to help with stitching and it took like an hour (while my poor LO was in the NICU and I had no idea how he was doing). My LO's head never molded and he wasn't in quite the right position, so I'm hoping next time around things will be easier! But I have so much scar tissue that a different doc referred me because she thought I needed to have a surgical repair and suggested a c-section next go round. I will definitely have some labor fears for #2 that I hadn't even considered with #1.

 

[mrsmammallama]

Yikes! I can relate to your terrible tear. Mine was worse than the labor too! :/ (But your experience sounds worse than mine! eep!) Have you thought about stretching out before giving birth? You can use warm olive oil and actually stretch the area, which might help?!