Why do I hemorrhage?

[walking burp cloth]

I have given birth twice, once in a hospital and once at home. Both were intervention free. Both times I hemorrhaged. When I gave birth in the hospital I just wrote it off and figured that the CNM must have pulled on the cord or something. Then it happened at home (7 years later). I know our midwife left the cord alone. I was taking chlorophyll, so it came out as massive blood clots, and the placenta came really fast (within a couple of minutes). I recieved a shot of pitocin, but it took quite a while for my uterus to clamp down on it's own. Our midwife team was great and very knowledgable as to what to do. One of them sat on the floor next to me and massaged my uterus for some time untill it took over on it's own. I lost enough blood that I could not get up off the floor for about 3 hours. Every time I tried I nearly passed out. (I have low blood pressure normally) Anyways, can anyone give me some ideas as to why this happens to me? I would like to have more children, and would like to stay home. We live in a small town, and our emergency facility can't even mend a broken arm. The nearest hospital is over an hour away. My labors are pretty low key, and I worry that a 3rd will go pretty fast. I would worry that the baby would come fast and there would be no one around to help if this happened again. I would like to figure this out, and figure out ways of prevention. I would appreciate any dirrection.

[AbiSolsticebaby]

I am curious about this too:

I had a homebirth and bled quite a bit and don't want to worry about it for the next birth but I read in The Baby Catcher that sometimes red heads just bleed more than other women and I am sorta kinda reddish toned dark haired person. This still doesn't make much sense though. I also heard that if you bleed alot during your menses that you might bleed more after birth.
Don't know but would like to know more.

[labordoula00]

there are lots of reasons

When it comes to a mom hemmohaging there are many different things to look at like, did she have a long labor, how long did the placenta stay in, does she or the father smoke, was she induced with pitocin, her iron levels, did all the placenta come out, does she have a bleeding disorder, and the list goes on.... So who knows why it is really an individual labor/woman basis. P.S. I really don't think redheads bleed more

[erthe_mama]

I've had a wise-woman midwife tell me that some women just bleed a lot. Every birth. She said that some women's bodies just have a need to get rid of all that extra blood build-up from pregnancy right away.

That's totally awesome that your midwives massaged and massaged your belly. That's a great way to deal with it.

[DoomaYula]

I'm curious too. I had a retained placenta and hemorrhaged after my homebirth, and transferred after the birth because of it, and sometimes I lay awake at night thinking, "Why????"