I'm at week 4 today and still wear a regular pad. The bleeding isn't constant but when it happens (a few times a day) I need the pad. I'm breastfeeding, which may affect it? I know that causes uterine contractions and I tend to bleed while feeding LO.
I bled for 6 weeks. I had a C & did not take it easy afterwards. My bleeding slowed down alot and I would over do it and start bleeding really heavy again. I was hard for me to sit still. I think I wouldn't have bled so long if i would have taken it easy like I was suppose to.
I bled for about 2 weeks, but after the first few days the bleeding lightened up but it was still a lot of discharge. Then I had a week of just lochia and then the worst period of my life for 2 weeks.
Me:27, DH:28 - DX: MFI, varicocele repair Nov 2011 Post-Op SA: Count- 15 million, Motility- 75%, Morphology- 3% IVF with ICSI - Stimming 10/4/12 - 10/13/12, Lupron Trigger ER 10/18/12, 12 eggs retrieved, 8 mature, 5 fertilized 5 day transfer 10/23/12, 3 frosties Beta #1 11/5/12: 453, Beta #2 11/7/12: 1,013, DD born 7/19/13
I'd have to say the same. I also had c/s and I'd hardly call it bleeding after about 3-4 days. Beyond that it was more like spotting with a watery discharge as well.
Oh, a few weeks. That said, it was a light-medium flow by the third or fourth day PP. And then it was spotting by the end of the first week until it quit about week 3 or a little before then.
FTM, vaginal delivery, exclusively breast-feeding (nursing at home, pumping at work). I think the significant bleeding was done by about 2 weeks, but lighter, on-and-off bleeding still happened up to probably 2 months, or even a little longer. I am now 4 months pp, and just had my first period about 2 weeks ago (grrr, I thought it would stay away longer, especially since I BF!).
7 weeks this time, but I've got an 18 month old and have been taking care of both kids by myself since week 2, plus we live in a 2nd story apartment and I have to carry both downstairs whenever we go anywhere.
Vaginal delivery for me and I was bleeding pretty heavily until about 4 1/2 weeks. After that it was just light spotting and could get by with just a pantyliner.
I'm at 4 weeks and still use a thin pad, although not as heavy. Some days there isn't much and other days there is slightly more, but overall has really lightened up. I had a vaginal delivery.
i only bled for about a week after my c-section than at around the 3rd week had these unpredictable gushes of blood flow. the dr. said was normal clearing of stuff from birth.
Re: How long did you bleed after giving birth?
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Me:27, DH:28 - DX: MFI, varicocele repair Nov 2011
Post-Op SA: Count- 15 million, Motility- 75%, Morphology- 3%
IVF with ICSI - Stimming 10/4/12 - 10/13/12, Lupron Trigger
ER 10/18/12, 12 eggs retrieved, 8 mature, 5 fertilized
5 day transfer 10/23/12, 3 frosties
Beta #1 11/5/12: 453, Beta #2 11/7/12: 1,013, DD born 7/19/13
It was 8 weeks with my first, 7 weeks with my second.
Curious, what does BF have to do with it?
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Lochia stopped around 4 weeks with DS, but I got my period too. I've just now had days without bleeding.
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