My vagina was badly injured after giving birth. Why was getting help so hard? | Christen Clifford

My vagina tore when I had my first child, but it took five years before I got the medical attention I needed. I’m not the only one

Every time I see a woman walking down the street with a newborn, all I can think is, “Does she have a traumatized vagina?”

My vagina tore when I had my first child. Doctors I’d never met before sewed me up and refused to tell me how many stitches they’d put in. I healed, and when I had another child five years later, I tore in the same place.

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