First Days Maternity Instant Perineal Cold Packs, Fully Absorbent Cold Packs with Soft Cotton Cover, No Need to Freeze, Provides 20 Minutes of Cold Therapy, Pack of 12

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Your nurses may help you out with the ice pack at first, but it’s nice to know how to do it yourself for when you go home. Immediately post-intervention, the proportion of women whose perineal pain decreased ≥30% was significantly higher in the experimental group.

Even people who have had the most serene birthing experience will have pain and discomfort after childbirth. You can even add a witch hazel pad or some numbing spray on top of the pad to help ease pain and swelling. Department of Maternal Child and Psychiatric Nursing, School of Nursing of University of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.Cold pads can also relieve sore breasts when breastfeeding, while hot compresses boost milk production. LIKE SITTING ON A CLOUD: Super-soft top layer provides comfort in the perineal area and an option to use for soft cold therapy on a c-section incision.

We recommend adding a Witch Hazel Pad on top of your Instant Perineal Cold Pack for maximum post-birth soothing.Two review authors independently assessed study eligibility, extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of included studies. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There was low-certainty evidence that women may rate their satisfaction as being slightly higher with perineal care in the cold gel pad and compression group (MD 0. The primary and secondary outcomes were a reduction ≥30% in perineal pain intensity, immediately after the application and the maintenance of the analgesic effect for up to 2h, respectively. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

The postpartum swelling and pain are unholy, and until I learned about perineal ice packs, I was forced to rely on nothing but ibuprofen and spray-on pain relief, which just wasn't sustainable. Our Bits Therapy Ice Pack is great during pregnancy, as it reduces swelling and burning sensations and provides cooling relief from itching. Not only are the Rapid Aid products reusable , but they are also designed to lock in heat or cold for prolonged pain management and relief. The amount of pain you feel after childbirth and the time it lasts can vary greatly depending on your experience.

Women may rate their opinion of treatment less favourably following the use of ice packs five days after giving birth (RR 0. Having used many of these products myself, and after talking to many parents who have also used them, I can tell you that the best perineal ice packs are either disposable or easy to clean, freeze firmly, but not solid, and cover the majority of your vulva, over your vaginal opening, perineum, and rectum. Whether you had a vaginal birth or a C-section following labour, the perineal area will be pretty swollen after birth. There are 24 pads per pack, so expect that you'll need three or more of these packs while you're healing. Comparing ice packs with cold gel pads, there may be no difference in self-rated perineal pain at any of the measurement times (3 studies, 338 women).

Easy to use, simply firmly squeeze the pad to rupture the inner chamber and shake to activate the cooling effect.ABSORBENT MAXI PAD: Each pad absorbs 260g of liquid, so you don’t have to worry about leaks while you chill.