Mazal tov on the birth of your baby!
In this situation, you may wear white pantiliners during this set of clean days. Stains on
pantiliners may be treated leniently and, in combination with your known
episiotomy bleeding, allow you to disregard
stains during the
clean days.
When a woman clearly has a vaginal wound or lesion, blood on
toilet paper may also be disregarded.
If you see that the wound is bleeding on day 4, it is advisable to omit that day's
bedikah until you have healed more. If you feel the area is improving and less sensitive, you can try to perform a
bedikah on another one of the middle days. Your day 7
bedikah is critical, and cannot be omitted, so try to do the
bedikah especially carefully and slowly, with a slightly damp bedikah cloth. If you are still concerned, please call our
hotline for further consultation.
We wish you a refuah sheleimah! Please write back with any further questions.
