How long did you bleed post c/s?

[galadriel]

How long did you have spotting? My midwives say they almost never have women who are textbook, where it tapers off over 4 weeks and never comes back at all, especially after a c/s. How late did you have spotting? I can't even go for a 10 minute walk carrying my daughter (she's over 13 lbs. already) without getting spotting. It's really frustrating!!

[zombiemommie]

Six weeks is standard. Listen to your body. If you have spotting, its not that big of an issue. Some exertion (like walking and carrying your baby) may be just helping to slough off tissue in there. An INCREASE in the amount of bleeding or a change in the color (like from brownish back to bright red) is another story. (like if you were carrying a heavy laundry basket up 2 flights of stairs and then you had some bright red blood where it had been brownish - that's your body telling you to quit it, KWIM ?) Be gentle with yourself. Let your body be your guide. ANd its only been a month !! Congratualtions BTW. I think we don't give ourselves enough credit for how much work it is to have a baby physically (not birth baby in the c/s or vag sense, that's another issue) but to grow a baby, and then nurture it and have that big old placenta just leave ... LOL. Plus, you had major abdominal surgery. People make it seem like no big deal because it is so common but it is MAJOR surgery. treat yourself as such. (I am an RN too)

I had a c/s with ds #1 and bled for like 3 weeks heavy. Then brown, then yellowy, then done in like 5 weeks total.

With my vag birth I just had, I hardly had any bleeding after the first 3 days. Then like a week later, holy cow, I was passing big old clots the size of mice. Maybe kittens. They were enormous and it would always be when I was assuming a weird position. I think it was my body just shedding normally. They were old, not new. Then when that was done, I tapered off still about 5 weeks of something coming out in total.

HTH

[Sofiamomma]

My dd is 9 weeks old and I am *still* having ocassional spotting! After my vaginal birth the bleeding lasted the usual 6 weeks, the last 5 weeks of which were spotting. This time I was bleeding like a period for about 4 weeks, then when into lighter flow, and now finally spotting.

[stafl]

I bled very heavily for about two or three weeks, then a few days of spotting, and some yellowish liquidy stuff a while after that.
Nothing after that until I got my first period when DD was 15 months old. Sorry to not be much help, but it just goes to show how it's different for each one of us!

[wombat]

I had my checkup at 7 weeks pp and I was still bleeding bright red. Dr. wasn't concerned cause it wasn't a lot. I bled for another month after that. It'd slow down for about a week then start up bright red again. Real nuisance.

[~Megan~]

9 weeks

[Serena]

I bled for 9 weeks too. And it would be normal lochia, then I would walk too much or do too much and get a gush of bright red blood. It was awful. I really, really had to FORCE myself to get enough rest. That is the ONLY thing that will stop the bleeding. And when it stops, continue to get enough rest to make sure it's really gone.

[Kari_mom]

Lots of differences for me with each baby - 7 weeks; 7 days; 4 weeks. All unplanned c-sections. I didn't rest after my daughter was born as she was in the hospital for 4 weeks. My first son was a breeze. My second son was easy too but my daughter had surgery and my father in law died. I believe rest and taking things easy works when you can do it!

Interesting sidenote: For the first two, my lochial flow stopped the same day that their umbilical cord stump fell off. I think that rest and relaxation helps those little babies heal too.