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Let's Talk Blood...How Much?
So two of my very good friend's recently gave birth in the last week and after visiting them in the hospital it makes you think about all kinds of stuff. In particular, one of my girlfriends who just had her second baby was going on and on about the pp bleeding and how she almost passed out when she saw it this time around during her first "pee" at the hospital. I am usually not all that squeamish about that stuff, but um yeah, okay not so comforting thanks much.
I know it varies from woman to woman, but seriously...how much blood should be expected? I'd love to hear from the mamas who've already been through this.
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Re: Let's Talk Blood...How Much?
I bled a lot. I did not take it easy when I got home. I did housework right away and continued until I was bleeding so heavily that I called the nurses line and they said that I would continue to bleed like that if I wouldn't take it easy. I was filling up pads, I would say, every couple hours, maybe even every hour. I'm talking huge pads, too. I don't really remember specifics, but just keep in mind that if you rest afterwards, you will really help yourself out in this department.
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Word. You always see and hear about the birth, but the post-birth stuff seems to be swept under the rug.
Someone on one of the national boards mentioned that they bought a bunch of actual baby diapers (size 1, I think) and put them in the freezer right before she left for the hospital. They were frozen solid by the time she came home, and she used them as her heavy bleeding pads. She said that the cold felt really good on her swollen and torn up lady bits.
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Hmm.. it seems like sitting on something frozen solid would have really hurt. Sitting on the couch hurt! I do recommend getting some of those frozen gel packs to hold on your business though. and a blow up doughnut to sit on, I know people sit on their boppys but I couldnt figure out how that worked plus the boppy on top of the couch was too high for me to just sit down on.
It will sound odd but I don't really remember the after delivery clean up. It was fast and from what my DR said I had a lot of blood but I really don't remember that part. I did have a cathater(sp) in so for 1/2 a day or so after delivery the pee went there. Gross I know. But I didn't seen any blood in that. When I had that taken out I did use those giant maxi pads from the hospital and the ones I had at home. I bled for a long time and the first week or 2 it seemed like I changed the pad 2 or 3 times a day. I bled off and on for 6 weeks. I do remember that waering the pads sucks but it was not that bad. Well for me anyway.
And at my 6 week PP appt with my OB she asked if I had a blood transfusion after delivery since I she didn't do my delivery. I said no why. And OB said in my chart it mentioned a lot of blood loss during delivery. But again I really don't remember seeing any of it.
I guess that's the no drug delivery for me. I was just thankful for it to be over and had a tiny but healthy baby.
Oct 2011 3 1/2 years old.
Robert Williams Birth date 5/16/2008
I have a gross little story if you really want me to carry on??
*sigh* Yes, please!
Right...so I'm thinking my husband will NOT be holding my leg then..lol. The man I married would not do well being squirted by blood from my bajingo. He can handle many things, but assuredly NOT that..lol
Wowzers. You have a good man! :-)
One of my besties was ready and raring to go at 6 weeks pp, but her husband made them wait an extra few weeks to do the deed because he was so traumatized by the "poop pellets" he saw shoot out of her butt when she was pushing. He couldn't "get in the moment." Hysterical.
Oct 2011 3 1/2 years old.
Robert Williams Birth date 5/16/2008
ah the joys of a c-section.
They came and squished loads of blood out of me the night after my section. I remember feeling TONS of disgustingness gushing out of me. But once I went home on day 4 or 5, I barely spotted much at all... And I could sit just fine. No swollen va-jay-jay, no traumatic pooping on the table.
it was alot in the beginning and I suppose this is already a TMI post, so here goes....
WHen I got home, I put an old towel around the base of the toliet in the bathroom I was going to use exclusively... it was very messy at first. Just the act of pulling off your undies caused some spillage onto the floor. yeah, WAAAY to much TMI
Luckily it only lasts a short time, and things "dry up" pretty quickly. Not 100%, but back to normal I guess.
DH remembers the floor at the hospital when they got up up to use the bathroom for the 1st time about an hour or 2 after she was born. yeah, huge blood trail from the bed to the bathroom. 2 nurses came in and wrapped the bedding up around me and both hold it while you waddle there. He says he wishes he had never seen that part! lol Then they change the bedding while you get cleaned up.
hahahahaha! That's hilarious!!! My DH would have LOST IT! :-) I think this story may have just made my day a little bit better!
Exactly the same!
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Ok - I understand the heavy flow part (and the sore girly parts), but does it have the severe abdominal and back cramps that accompany periods? (I'm normally curled up on the couch or in bed with a heat pack for a couple days and lots of drugs.) Or is that just all wrapped up in the generally discomfort of having a baby?
So husbands really do faint in the delivery room, eh?! I thought that only happened on tv! j/k I'm curious...if he fanted BEFORE the gory stuff, then what did he see that made him woozy? Or was it just the overall hospital room experience that set him off?
this is fun now that I went back to read the rest of the posts! lol
I think Annette's DH fainted when they tried to give her the epi...since it didn't work. Poor Annette! I wouldn't even let DH leave to use the bathroom while in labor!
It does hurt to sit for weeks, and my best piece of advice, is even if you feel better, keep taking the midol they give you! I stopped after a few days since I felt pretty good. Oh lordy good gos, I swear it felt like the stiches were being pulled out with every move I made. KEEP taking the midol!
The bleeding is also why I highly recommend getting a package or 2 of cheapy granny Hanes undies for when you get home. I was having to change them each time I went to the bathroom with the spillage I was talking about in an earlier post. You don't want to get your good undies stained. FYI!
My DH walked out in the middle of pushing because of this. He had a look on his face I'd never seen before and almost passed out in the hallway. He just wasn't prepared.
My advice...swipe all the BIG ole' hospital pads. So not sexy but necessary!
One of the things they also look for in the little pee/blood catcher is the size of your clots.
When I went to the bathroom for my second time, I emptied the little catcher thing when I was done and I got in trouble. They want to see it first. The nurses have a tough job.
They give you baby diapers with an ice pack on the inside after delivery and it is a god send. If you were to duplicate that at home, they tear the top of the diaper and then put lose ice inside. You don't really sit in the hospital, you are more reclining.
They also come in and check the healing progress while you are there. You pretty give up on modesty, you really freaking don't care. That is until your baby is a couple of months old, and you actually have time to reflect. Then you realize that people were looking at your business all the time.
The crampy feeling that you get when you have your period is different with the pp period. It definitely is more contraction like pp.
Here is my pp tmi...
I was upstairs going to the bathroom and realized there was no tp. Oops. I tried to get the fam's attention, but they were downstairs, tv on, etc. I would've done the quick run of shame to the closet to get more tp but... I had a clot hanging down into the toilet that wouldn't dislodge itself. I shimmied, I shook, I bounced. No luck. I ended up sitting on the toilet for like 20 minutes stomping on the bathroom floor and yelling for someone to please bring me tp!
OMG. ONLY on this board could I read such a thing! ?But seriously, thanks for sharing :-)?
No, not in my experience anyway. I'm just talking about the bleeding. You don't have any other period symptoms! Lol. But you will be understandably sore down there for a while!
Do you guys have pg books? Mine did a really good job of covering all this in detail...?
Lol, true that... but they do mention "post-partum bleeding" and "clots", etc. You definitely can't get more up close and personal than all the TMI on the bump!
And that's great, but there are a lot of Qs asked on here where I wonder whether the poster has done *any* research at all. I'm not talking about your Q, nykola, I'm just sayin...
They did this as Swedish for me. Actually, they cut the diaper open and put crushed ice in it. Sooo nice. And the diaper catches the ice as it melts.
I didn't know about the PP blood so I made such a mess the first time I stood up after delivery. The heavy stuff only lasted for about 2 weeks.
I wish I'd seen this post before I had my LO! I highly suggest putting DH under strict orders to never reveal to you whether you pooped on the table or not! I was in too much pain and focusing too hard to notice whether it happened or not, so why find out after the fact!
In the hospital afterward DH would fill latex gloves with ice from the ice machine, and then I would wrap some tissue around it and put inside the ginormous pads you get. It felt really really good. You're not sitting in the hospital at that point, just reclining in bed, and the cold feels wonderful. The mesh underwear they give you are hideous, but they are the sh*$! Take as many as you can. I wore them at home until the heavy bleeding stopped.
My pp bleeding lasted almost 12 weeks. It was heavy for 5-6 weeks and then was lighter for the next 6 weeks. I've never clotted well and bleed easily though, so maybe that's why. I second the pp who said to keep taking your ibuprofen even if you don't feel too bad. It's important to stay on top of the pain. I quit taking mine pretty quick because I felt ok, but as soon as it wore off...ow.