*Days after Chrissy Teigen welcomed her second child, son Miles, she shared with fans how much easier giving birth was the second time around and compared it to delivering her first baby, Luna, back in 2016.
“I can confirm postpartum life is 90% better when you don’t rip to your butthole,” she wrote on Saturday. “Baby boy: 1 point. Luna: 0.”
In one tweet, Teigen acknowledged that she had a tougher delivery with her daughter, Luna. “I can confirm postpartum life is 90 percent better when you don’t rip to your butthole,” she wrote.
I can confirm postpartum life is 90% better when you don’t rip to your butthole. Baby boy: 1 point. Luna: 0
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) May 20, 2018
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Her “ripped butthole” comment has sparked conversation online from celebs, and regular mothers about how a vaginal birth can tear up your body.
As noted by The Huff Post, “there are four degrees of vaginal tears, or perineal lacerations ― with the first degree being the least severe and the fourth being the most. Teigen likely had a third or fourth degree, where the laceration can stretch all the way to the rectum.”
“I can confirm that the 4th degree perineal tear is the worst thing I have physically ever experienced,” one person tweeted in response to Chrissy’s confession. “*shudders*.”
“Welcome to the 4th degree tear club…it’s a journey….anyone else here, we have a group on Facebook…4th degree tear support group,” wrote one mom.
“When it extends to the external anal sphincter, that’s third degree,” says Christine Greves, MD, ob-gyn at Orlando Health Hospital in Florida. “The sphincter is a very important part of our anal area for being able to hold poop in. Fourth degree goes all the way through and includes the mucosa, the very thin lining [of the rectum],” she says. A fourth-degree tear results in “no separation between the vagina and the rectum.”
Dr. Greves says lacerations are more common when you give birth for the first time because “you haven’t been stretched or torn there before.”
