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With clean hands (and short nails) insert your thumbs or index fingers (lubricated with a little K-Y jelly or olive oil if you’d like—but don’t use mineral oil or Vaseline) inside your vagina. Press down (toward your rectum) and slide your fingers across the bottom and sides of your perineum, going in a sweeping semicircle. Relax and breathe gently (don’t hold your breath). Repeat two or three times a week during the last weeks of pregnancy.
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