Question:
i am 5 months pregnant with a little girl. the other day i thought back to high school and this girl from guatemala was telling the teacher one day that the hospital had apparently asked her parents ... if they wanted to break the newborn hymen upon birth. has anyone else heard of this? i've tried googling it but to no avail.fortunately, the girl said, the mother said no to the procedure and the girl was thankful to that day. she was a very religious girl and not prone to fabrication so i believe the story. if this is something they offer at hospitals, i will flat out refuse as i would a circumcision.
i'll be asking my ob at the next appointment as well but i wanted to see if anyone else had ever heard of this. thanks!
Answer:
The only time I have ever heard of a doctor stretching or breaking the hymen is if there is some medical condition that keeps it from stretching and makes sex or tampon insertion painful. This happens when a female is in hers teens and up.I've never heard of a doctor breaking a baby's hymen.
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