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Background: The postpartum period was a critical transitional time for a woman, because it undergoes significant changes in the body, physically and physiologically. Likewise, complications and problem related to delivery such as pain and healing of episiorraphy. The main goals in postpartum care is to assist and support the woman-s recovery to the prepregnant state and educate the mother about her own self care. Methods: The design of this research was pretest and posttest nonequivalent control group. The sample was 15 participant for intervention group using lavender sitzbath therapy and 15 participant for control group using sitzbath therapy only. The instrument using REEDA scale. Bivariate statistical test using Wilcoxon and Mann Whitney. Results : The experiment group using lavender sitzbath therapy in pretest “slightly healed” on the effectiveness of the lavender sitzbath theraphy in terms of healing process of episiorraphy on primiparous mother with the weighted mean 8.87 and the posttest “fully healed” with the weighted means 1.37. The result of pretest and posttest had p value of 0.001. it was interpreted that the lavender sitzbath therapy had a significant relationship in healing process of primiparous mother Conclussion: Lavender sitzbath therapy was effective on episiorraphy among postpartum mother