I'll try to make this brief. I gave birth to a healthy and robus baby boy July 3rd, he was 11lb5oz. However, the afterbirth did not come out on it's own and I started hemorrhaging soon after childbirth. The OB sent me to the OR for an emergency DNC and two blood transfusions.
Initially, I had very little post-partum bleeding. It was only moderately heavy for two days then started looking pink almost immediately. I was surprised that I didn't have a lot of uterine cramping, even though this was my second child.
My discharge was looking brownish last week and I thought it would be ending soon. However, the past couple days I have been bleeding much heavier and feeling some moderate cramping.
Does this sound normal? It's been 4 years since I had DS1 so I can't remember the details of post-partum bleeding - only that it continued for 8 weeks with him! I've never had a DNC before this one, so I don't know if it's normal to have more bleeding later or if they may have missed something.
Thoughts?
Initially, I had very little post-partum bleeding. It was only moderately heavy for two days then started looking pink almost immediately. I was surprised that I didn't have a lot of uterine cramping, even though this was my second child.
My discharge was looking brownish last week and I thought it would be ending soon. However, the past couple days I have been bleeding much heavier and feeling some moderate cramping.
Does this sound normal? It's been 4 years since I had DS1 so I can't remember the details of post-partum bleeding - only that it continued for 8 weeks with him! I've never had a DNC before this one, so I don't know if it's normal to have more bleeding later or if they may have missed something.
Thoughts?