New moms/STMs - gross question

[carawestt]

3 days, then just spotting for a few days after that. I know this is not the norm. 4-6 weeks is pretty typical.

[glauren]

6 weeks.

[carawestt]

Dec 25, 2013 15:54:25 GMT -5 Loco Coco said:

And it fluctuated for me too. Sometimes it was light then heavy again.

carawestt that is no fair! Lol.

It'll probably be a different story this time! Haha

[Jalapeñomel]

I bled heavily for the first 3 or 4 days then light bleeding until the end of week 2.

[eav2c]

I bled somewhat heavily for a week and then it calmed down. I had some days with nothing and other days of some pretty awful bleeding. I would fully expect bleeding all six weeks to be normal too though.

[runblondie26]

8 weeks like I was a dying animal with my first (emergency csection after 20+ hours of labor)

Heavy for a week, spotting for 3 more after my second (scheduled csection)

[sookie]

Dec 25, 2013 16:14:32 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I bled heavily for the first 3 or 4 days then light bleeding until the end of week 2.

Same here.

[ilikedonuts]

Heavy for like a day? And then light for the next 3 weeks. I FF and got my period at 4 1/2 weeks PP this time. Ugh!

[redpenmama]

I'm 6 days PP and bleeding has slowed to a light period. I believe I spotted for about 2 week last time.

[JayhawkGirl]

I'm 2 weeks tomorrow and still steady but light. Definitely increases when I do too much, like crawl around on the floor for Christmas today.

With my first, it went away after about 10 days then came back at about 3 weeks and wouldn't go away. I had to take medicine (methergine?) at about the 10 week mark to make it stop.

[Velar Fricative]

5 weeks, but it wasn't too bad because it was only heavy the first few days and then pretty light the rest of the time.

[Deleted]

2-3 weeks

[countthestars]

5 weeks, varying from heavy to light after the first week or so (which was all pretty heavy).

[trafficgirl]

I bled pretty heavily for about a week and a half, then lightly for another 2.5 weeks. I was pretty much done by 4 weeks PP.

I just got my first period though, at exactly 6 weeks PP. I'm formula feeding so I expected it to come around pretty soon.

[osulori]

It lightened up a lot after 2 weeks but I still bled on and off until 4 weeks pp, then again from 7-8 weeks pp (that could have been Mirena related though, I'm not sure)

[sake]

6 weeks, then got my first pp period.

[sonrisa]

I'm 10 days out and still bleeding. I lost about a quarter of my total blood during the c-section itself. It is lighter on days I'm more sedentary and heavier when I do more or wear my abdominal binder (which, in turn, makes things less uncomfortable and lets me do more.)

[ErinExpat]

Dec 25, 2013 16:14:32 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I bled heavily for the first 3 or 4 days then light bleeding until the end of week 2.

Exactly this.

[snickers]

2 weeks to the day, then it started again around 6 weeks for a week.
I think 4-6 weeks is typical, I had less bleeding because they "cleaned me out" after labor due to complications.

[pescalita]

4-5 weeks, but it was pretty light by the time I was out of the hosp (4 days). It did come and go though, heavier and lighter.

I read at one point that the placental scar scabs up and then it falls off over and over again until its completely healed, which is why you see it get better and then worse several times.

[amaristella]

I bled like a heavy period in the hospital. Discharged after 36 hours and had light, medium and heavy spotting coming and going for about 2 or 3 weeks. Once around 10 days postpartum I think I had an ugly clot. Somewhere I think I read a theory that if the cervix closes up really fast and then you lay down for a while it can encourage a clot to form which then has to force your cervix back open for it to pass.

[BaliHai]

I'm three weeks and three days pp and mine is still coming and going. I only have to wear a liner, have only had to for about a week now, but there is still just enough "stuff" to be annoying, and it increases if I overdo it according to my uterus... which is at least twice a day. So over it, in case you couldn't tell, lol.

[Stingyshark]

I'm only 8 days out & I'm over it.... 6 weeks. Oh my.

The combination of 2 tears & bleeding is making me nuts