I am sure you have heard from your Doctor’s about healthy habits and lifestyle during pregnancy. Proper nutrition, adequate exercise, daily vitamins etc. I feel - Meditation also needs to be added to this list of good habits during pregnancy.
An episiotomy is a surgical incision used to enlarge the vaginal opening to help deliver a baby. Since most first time mothers tear naturally during birth, the idea was that episiotomies could help the process by making the tear cleaner and better cut, than the irregular tear which occurs naturally. This tear is repaired with stitches after the birth of the baby and placenta.