Episiotomy Wound Care, Episiotomy Wound Healing and Pain Perception

Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years of age and older * primiparous * givingbirth vaginally on due date (37-42 gestational weeks) * who have a healthy newborn, * who have a mediolateral episiotomy, * who do not have communication problems * who can understand and speak Turkish were included in the research. Exclusion Criteria: * Givingbirth by cesarean section * Having third and fourth-degree perineal tears, * Having a history of diseases that prevent wound healing, * Using certain drugs (eg, glucocorticoids, anticoagulants, chemotherapy, immunosuppressant, and radiotherapy), * Having chronic systemic diseases (heart, kidney and lung diseases, coagulation disorder, immunodeficiency, connective tissue disorders, and diabetes), * Having history of genital warts, symptomatic vaginitis, * Having history of perineal reconstructive surgery, any postpartum complication (hemorrhage, puerperal infection, mastitis, thromboembolic disease or postpartum psychiatric disorder)