For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 20, 2018

Michelle Tanner once called that thing “tooshee doughnut” in a “Full House”/“Hanging with Mr. Cooper” crossover.

In the service we simply called it a rhoid-ring.

Elly: Doctor, it hurts when I grab my butt like this. What should I do?

Doctor:Don’t grab your butt like that. Here, have a doughnut.

Elly: Hey! This tastes terrible.

If she used this, she had an episiotomy. It did help me. I had this procedure with my first but not with the second, thank goodness. If the birthing woman did not have a perineal tear, she would not need this ring pillow. I read that the teaching hospitals are encouraging gyn doctors not to do this unless absolutely necessary, same with induced births just to get a preferred birthdate or timing.

Thanks to all you mothers who commented here. Even as a middle-aged bachelor, I appreciate all of you ladies for being!

One of the many joys of motherhood – pain in childbearing.

I had a c-section with both (the first was an emergency one, which necessitated the need for the second). For the second, my husband worked the week that I was in the hospital so he could take the next week off to help me at home. Our older daughter, who was 2, was also extremely helpful. While the ladies of our church made our dinners for that week & brought it over every day, that was the only “outside” help we got…or wanted.

C-section(s)….after 72 hours of labor. 9 and 8 pound babies!

I had the episiotomy for the first one and tearing for the second. In both cases I was pretty numb from the waist down (saddle block for one and spinal for the other) so I felt neither the tearing/incision nor the sewing. I didn’t use a donut pillow. I guess I didn’t know about them.

My wife toughed it out at the advice of her mother, eschewed the cushion. She was convinced she got over it faster.

The last panel is a great example of the cartoonist art.

I really had forgotten all the things you had to do after a regular delivery. It’s been a long time.

My daughter (age 10 at the time) asked if it hurt to have a baby. I was honest, told her I didn’t feel anything! She now has five, so I guess her question has been answered.

@"DOCTOR" YARPYARPYARP: Sure hope you have no daughters. Or a wife, for that matter…

Elly looks constipated in panel four.

Is this the beginning of this strip or its a flashback of where Elly tells her kids about what happen?