10D.4 Childbirth with Clitoral Hood Piercing
Description
This article is from the Piercing FAQ, by Anne Greenblatt with numerous contributions by others.
10D.4 Childbirth with Clitoral Hood Piercing
by Samantha <blackcat@poboxes.com> August 1998
At the moment I wear a 14ga stainless steel captive bead ring, because
my teardrop-shaped ring was somehow uncomfortable during pregnancy,
although I don't now why.
The topic of what to do with my pierce came up some weeks before the
due date during one of the prenatal appointments with my midwife. She
was really interested in how it was done and who did it and why one
would like to have something like the clit hood pierced (now *that*
was easy to explain).
We discussed if I would have to take the ring out when giving birth
and she said it would be better to take it out just in case, although
she didn't think the ring would be really in the way.
So when the birth started (my waters broke) I didn't think about the
ring at all and left it in all through the first stage of labour. Only
when I was nearly ready to push the midwife reminded me of the ring
and Chris (my husband) took it out. The bead is quite loose, so he was
able to open it without pliers. He put some almond oil on the ring and
rotated it through the hole to keep it lubricated and moist and then
took the ring out.
90 minutes later our son was born without any problems and about an
hour later Chris re-inserted the ring. I was really surprised that the
hole didn't close a bit, but maybe I just didn't feel that the hole
was smaller because of the oil. Chris used some oil again and nearly
didn't manage to get the slippery bead in.
Before the birth I didn't expect to keep the hole because I thought
genital pierces would close very fast and I already thought about
getting it redone, but I am very glad I didn't have to.
Continue to:
My Books
