Episiotomy

Breast milk is the best possible nutrition for your baby. Close contact with your baby – skin-to-skin bonding – not just in the first few hours of life, is the first step towards successful breastfeeding.

Episiotomy – an incision in the perineum – is not performed routinely, but only in cases where there is a risk of serious perineal injury, or where it is necessary to speed up the delivery of the baby in the event of acute hypoxia, as well as during surgical delivery, e.g. by vacuum extraction. If the baby’s condition and anatomical circumstances permit, we try to wait until the perineum is fully dilated and avoid an episiotomy. If it is necessary to perform one for any reason, we always do so after administering a local anaesthetic.