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Objective This study explores women's experience of having a second degree perineal tear and related consequences to daily life during the first eight weeks after childbirth. Method Written responses to open-ended questions in a questionnaire distributed about eight weeks postpartum and completed by 1,007 women with second degree perineal tears were excerpted from the national quality register, Perineal Laceration Register. Inductive qualitative content analysis was applied to the data. Result The theme Taken by surprise illustrates women's experience of th