Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean.

Caesarean Birth:
Making Informed Choices.

Making Informed Choices
About Caesarean Birth.

Suture materials used in your skin wound.

Your obstetrician will probably have a preference for the method of stitching the skin wound. It could be a dozen or so individual stitches or metal clips across the wound (they look like staples), or a single, continuous stitch running just under the skin. This latter type of stitch may be of absorbable material so that it dissolves over a few weeks, or be non-absorbable and need removal - usually on about the fifth post-operative day. If you have your own preference for the type of skin suture, discuss it with your doctor beforehand, so that it can be negotiated

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