Our body after birth..To all the women who have given birth before

Linz88 · Feb 27th, 2010, 04:49 AM

okaii well funnily enough im not scared to give birth.. at all.. quite excited actually... the only thing im scared of is the blood afterwards.. arghh..
is it really as bad as people make out?
and how long till it turns into a "usual" period flow

xx

fernie3 · Feb 27th, 2010, 04:56 AM

Mine was like a very heavy period for the first maybe 24 hours then it went down to a normal period. Afterabout 3 or 4 days it was light and carried on like that for a couple of weeks

tiggerlix · Feb 27th, 2010, 05:03 AM

mine was only heavy for a day or 2 then went lighter,apparantly if you breast feed its even lighter to almost none...dont know how true that is though
xxx

Linz88 · Feb 27th, 2010, 05:05 AM

do you no when you say heavy do you mean like 1 towel every hour and a half r like 1 towel every half hour..

tiggerlix · Feb 27th, 2010, 05:11 AM

you will have to buy the super absorbant ones,boots sell the maternity pads which are good,although ugly lol.and you may need to wear 2 thru the night as i did,but you can get the night time ones.Id say 7-8 a day.But honestly its not that heavy fr more than a week hun.
xx

PurpleHaze · Feb 27th, 2010, 05:14 AM

This might be a silly question, but do you get this bleeding if you have a c-section too?

Hollys_Twinny · Feb 27th, 2010, 05:16 AM

12 hours after giving birth I climbed out of my hospital bed for the first time( had an epidural so I was bed bound) the blood poured out of me.. All down my leg.. Was vile.. I was changing my pad by the hour.. And these ain't your average pads they are like breeze blocks inbetween your legs. I noticted after around two days it calmed... Just like a heavy period for the next week or so, I changed to always night sanitary towels. After that I had around 3 weeks of your average period. Then a scanky period... Two days later it got heavier.. So I counted that as my period had arrived.. I was right it lasted 5 days then exactly a month later it returned. So all in all I was bleeding for around 5 weeks- it varies though & I don't think you have anything to worry about xx

reversal · Feb 27th, 2010, 05:18 AM

mine was heavy for the first day then just like a normal period after that, also i was like you i was not scared of giving birth, I think it helps having a site like this to get the info from and its really not that bad, good luck

tiggerlix · Feb 27th, 2010, 05:21 AM

my sister had a section and yes she still bled a lill but not alot hun..
xx

faun · Feb 27th, 2010, 05:24 AM

My bleeding was quite bad for about a week then it slowed down i bought some of those DryNites bed mats so if i leaked in the night i didn't wreck the bed they were great as the first 2 or 3 night i did leak even with 2 pads on.

Feb 27th, 2010, 04:49 AM	#1
Linz88 Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: West Brom\Bham, Uk Posts: 1,679	Our body after birth..To all the women who have given birth before okaii well funnily enough im not scared to give birth.. at all.. quite excited actually... the only thing im scared of is the blood afterwards.. arghh.. is it really as bad as people make out? and how long till it turns into a "usual" period flow xx

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Feb 27th, 2010, 04:56 AM	#2
fernie3 Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Merseyside Posts: 1,774	Mine was like a very heavy period for the first maybe 24 hours then it went down to a normal period. Afterabout 3 or 4 days it was light and carried on like that for a couple of weeks

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Feb 27th, 2010, 05:03 AM	#3
tiggerlix Pregnant (Expecting) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: cornwall,uk Posts: 1,867	mine was only heavy for a day or 2 then went lighter,apparantly if you breast feed its even lighter to almost none...dont know how true that is though xxx

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Feb 27th, 2010, 05:05 AM	#4
Linz88 Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: West Brom\Bham, Uk Posts: 1,679	do you no when you say heavy do you mean like 1 towel every hour and a half r like 1 towel every half hour..

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Feb 27th, 2010, 05:11 AM	#5
tiggerlix Pregnant (Expecting) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: cornwall,uk Posts: 1,867	you will have to buy the super absorbant ones,boots sell the maternity pads which are good,although ugly lol.and you may need to wear 2 thru the night as i did,but you can get the night time ones.Id say 7-8 a day.But honestly its not that heavy fr more than a week hun. xx

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Feb 27th, 2010, 05:14 AM	#6
PurpleHaze Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Lancaster, UK Posts: 364	This might be a silly question, but do you get this bleeding if you have a c-section too?

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Feb 27th, 2010, 05:16 AM	#7
Hollys_Twinny Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Uk Posts: 4,231	12 hours after giving birth I climbed out of my hospital bed for the first time( had an epidural so I was bed bound) the blood poured out of me.. All down my leg.. Was vile.. I was changing my pad by the hour.. And these ain't your average pads they are like breeze blocks inbetween your legs. I noticted after around two days it calmed... Just like a heavy period for the next week or so, I changed to always night sanitary towels. After that I had around 3 weeks of your average period. Then a scanky period... Two days later it got heavier.. So I counted that as my period had arrived.. I was right it lasted 5 days then exactly a month later it returned. So all in all I was bleeding for around 5 weeks- it varies though & I don't think you have anything to worry about xx

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Feb 27th, 2010, 05:18 AM	#8
reversal Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: TYNE AND WEAR Posts: 916	mine was heavy for the first day then just like a normal period after that, also i was like you i was not scared of giving birth, I think it helps having a site like this to get the info from and its really not that bad, good luck

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Feb 27th, 2010, 05:21 AM	#9
tiggerlix Pregnant (Expecting) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: cornwall,uk Posts: 1,867	my sister had a section and yes she still bled a lill but not alot hun.. xx

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Feb 27th, 2010, 05:24 AM	#10
faun Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Norwich, Norfolk Posts: 2,626	My bleeding was quite bad for about a week then it slowed down i bought some of those DryNites bed mats so if i leaked in the night i didn't wreck the bed they were great as the first 2 or 3 night i did leak even with 2 pads on.

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