Husband stitch

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The husband stitch or husband's stitch, also known as the daddy stitch, husband's knot, or vaginal tuck, is a surgical procedure in which one or more additional sutures than necessary are used to repair a woman's perineum after it has been torn or cut during childbirth.

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