Care plan for a 4th degree

[webbiedebbie]

I'm curious to see what others use for this. At a lot of hospitals I have worked at, this is missed quite a bit. :imbar

[Shotzie]

OWW, OWW OWWW!!!!

I had a big, bad ugly tear too. Forceps deliveries are the pits...at the time I didn't care, just get the kid out fast while he still has a chance at normal!!!...but the next morning I cared...I cared A LOT!!!

I was one of the last women in that hospital to get a heat lamp. I was in the hospital for several days and I went between the sitz bath and the heat lamp. There was an old nurse on that unit who went down to the basement and dug up a heat lamp for me. She was a great blessing and I loved her to death.

As far as the plastic sitz bath thingy's go, I just used it like Dawn said. Filled it up with as hot a temp of water as I could stand and sat til it cooled off. Even better, I would get in the bathtub with about 10 inches of water in there and sit with my heels propped up on the sides of the tub. Took a book ands stayed till it was time to feed my precious child again or until I began to be worried about permanent shrivel marks on my fingers.