TMI ? - If you lost a decent amount of blood

[sonrisa]

during birth, how long did it take before you stopped feeling dizzy/light headed/faint/jittery?  Every time I eat a meal, I feel like I'm going to fall down afterwards. It's like I'm permanently tipsy. 

[cbwm1]

Congrats on the new little one! I didn't realize you'd had her! Did you announce a name??

As for the way you're feeling, I'm guessing it's semi-normal after losing a bunch of blood, but I'd definitely call your doc.

[sonrisa]

Thanks cbwm :-)

They watched it at the hospital and my stats were just good enough not do do a transfusion. Silly, dizzy, confused me thought I would be feeling less so after a week. I can wait it out for a month, though.

[kristie]

You should probably let your doc know. Numbers only matter if you aren't symptomatic, which it sounds like you are.

[Deleted]

First, congratulations!!!!

Second, with L I also barely didn't need a transfusion and felt better by about a week.

[MWOS]

I lost a lot of blood when my uterus was broken. 2 weeks til I didn't feel like I was hit by a truck.

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[spellingbea]

Congratulations! It took me about a week, and I was taking iron supplements.

[alzi]

It took a blood transfusion and a week on hardcore iron supplements.

Talk to your dr. Hope you get it all figured out soon.

[HiC]

Call your doctor just to be on the safe side. Feel better soon! xo

[lizard]

It's all a bit fuzzy anymore, but I recall passing out and then waking up four hours later to two blood transfusions. I shit the bed, was sent to ICU where I rested/slept/barely saw my new baby for 8 hours and then sent to the normal mother/baby unit for that night. I felt SO good (but sore and shaky) the following morning, so much so that I asked to go home a day early. They let me go with some iron pills. Congratulations!!

[saraandmichael]

I would definitely put a call in about this. Having symptoms for that long is a bit of a warning for the 'better safe than sorry' song.

How was your birth? Less complicated than the last (I hope)?

[iamali]

Definitely call your doc. Esp. if you're bleeding like a TON.

[junebug]

I felt the same way after birth, and I ended up in the hospital getting a blood transfusion. 

[ohgillian]

I got 2 units and even so was wrecked for a few weeks. But do not use this as a shin that it's okay not to call -- my OB was keeping a pretty close eye on me postpartum.

[sonrisa]

Thanks, everyone. I'm not bleeding a ton. I'll send my doctor an email.