Abstract

The moment of birth is both joyous and beautiful. Birth is a unique dynamic process, fetal and maternal physiologies interact symbiotically. Every woman who became pregnant has to undergo the process of delivery. In normal process of delivery, the baby is delivered per vagina; an episiotomy is performed on vagina by health care provider or midwife. The present study was under taken to assess the effectiveness of medicated and non medicated sitz bath on episiotomy wound healing among postnatal mothers at Govt. SMGS Maternity Hospital, Jammu (J&K).The sample consisted of 40 postnatal mothers (20 in experimental and 20 in control group). Purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. Socio-demographic profile, obstetrical history variables tool and REEDA scale were used to collect the data from subjects. The results revealed that both medicated and non medicated sitz bath are equally effective in episiotomy wound healing among postnatal mothers. Thus, sitz bath either medicated or non medicated should be encouraged among postnatal mothers so as fasten the episiotomy wound healing and easy recovery of postnatal mothers.

Keywords

medicated sitz bath, non medicated sitz bath, episiotomy wound, postnatal mothers