Small Vagina

Her vaginal opening is small,am afraid she might not find it easy giving birth.
What are the implications concerning child bearing

How do u know"it" was vey small 


Been there, feel it, so I know it,
Well thanks all d samke for allaying my fears, just dat I would not want her hurt lol

good job, have always been impressed by your post, what part of the health sector are you on

a vagina cant be too small for a baby to pass through. it is very elastic,and can accommodate almost anything. and i can assure you that a 10lbs baby can pass through it. however, in some women their pelvic bones might be too small that the baby cant pass through the cavity.

  siddon dia when instruments like this exist? "  "


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Hey there Slimtoney!

I work in a birth clinic, so I might be able to help a little.

The size of the vagina doesn't realy affect child birth as there are stages for where the baby passes through. The vagina is very stretchy, try using both your little fingers and putting them at both sides of your mouth and stretch it (silly as this may sound is also how the vagina would stretch), also the same thing with the anal area, it stretches to pass out feacal matter.

What actually effects child birth is relatively the positioning of the baby.

here are the mechanical stages..



#1. Engagement of the fetal head in the transverse position. The baby is looking across the pelvis at one or other of the mother's hips.



#2. Descent and flexion of the fetal head



#3. Internal rotation. The fetal head rotates 90 degrees to the occipito-anterior (back of babies head) so that the baby's face is towards the mother's rectum.



#4. Delivery by extension. The fetal head passes out of the birth canal. Its head is tilted backwards so that its forehead leads the way through the vagina. (the babies head is very amazing as it has 5 parts, the front of the babies head is round so nature designed it to pass throgu the vagina first as the vaginal opening would also be round, regaurdless of vaginal size).



#5. Restitution. The fetal head turns through 45 degrees to restore its normal relationship with the shoulders, which are still at an angle.



#6. External rotation. The shoulders repeat the corkscrew movements of the head, which can be seen in the final movements of the fetal head.

These movements are all due to the relationship of the bony head and shoulders of the fetus to the bony ring of the mother's pelvis and are independent of any changes in the maternal soft tissues.



Yes child birth is painful, but a few women I have spoken to have said that the contractions are more painful then pushing the baby out itself, to be honest if your wife/ girlfriend, has a good midwife, then that midwife should be able to talk you through pushing the baby out, because at some stage when pushing the baby, a good midwife should be able to get the women to control how much she pushes in order to reduce the risks of the perineum tearing (that space between the vagina and the anus), Normally thats where women feel like a stinging or burning sensation (in such a sense that's what women worry about more) in some cases if the babies head is too big, the doctor would make a small inscission to give way.



well I hope this helps a little, but realy you should also try to seek advice from a good doctor, midwife!! 

I guess what every previous poster is trying to tell u is that, what matters more when it comes to delivery per vaginum is the size of the baby's head to the pelvic bones, cos if it gets stuck, either because the head is too large, or because the pelvis is too narrow, or has a wrong shape, there is precious little that can be done. So to prevent this, a woman gets a pelvic examination at 36 weeks to see if the pelvis will allow a vaginal delivery, if not, she's booked for a C/S.
Actually, sometimes the vagina wall cannot stretch enough to allow the head pass through, and this can lead to serious tears with resultant bleeding or problems such as recto-vaginal fistulae, but this is so easy to prevent if the delivery is handled by a trained personnel, who gives a small laceration (episiotomy), under painkillers of course, that widens the opening enough for the head to pass thru. So like everyone else has said, u have nothing to fear.

 have to tell you that statistically this is most unlikely. Vast numbers of patients think that they are excessively small, but only once in a blue moon are they actually right.

The symptoms that make them feel that they are unusually small include:
pain on intercourse
inability to have sex at all
inability to insert a tampon.
But the vast majority of women who complain of these problems do eventually turn out to be normal-sized. Nearly always, they are suffering from a degree of vaginismus - the common condition that makes the vaginal muscles contract whenever any approach is made to the genitals.

To find out if your vagina really is too small, you should have an internal examination by an experienced doctor who is good at putting patients at their ease.

The obvious place to go for this is a family planning clinic - especially as the staff are mainly female.

In the unlikely event that your vagina really does turn out to be too small, it is possible for a skilled gynaecologist (or a plastic surgeon) to enlarge it surgically for you.

However, it is a rare case in sexual medicine!