It's been 3 weeks since my c-section and I'm still having vaginal bleeding. This being my first section, I naively thought I'd be out of the woods with that, but apparently not.
I'm wearing liners all the time. The bleeding varies between a light period and fairly heavy, bleeding through and outside the liner. (I should really pick up some heavier pads, I know.) My periods are generally light so I can usually get away with just wearing a liner without any issue. So it seems pretty heavy to me. There aren't any clots that I've seen, or gushing.
It gets progressively lighter but for me, bleeding cont until 1 month and at 6 wks I'm still passing minimal amounts of blood tinged discharge. Totally annoying but unfortunately to be expected.
Mine was light most of the time but it lasted ten weeks. I was pretty active with walking and going back to running at 8 weeks but it didn't seem to get worse with those. Just light and steady for a long time. Hope it doesn't last as long for you but don't panic if it does.
Mine was really light. I would go for days and have none then do to much activity and pass clots. I would say I was completely done by 4 weeks but only had a handful of days that bleeding was medium or heavy.
I remember asking this question too....I think I bled for at least 6 weeks post partum. It was annoying! Good thing for me though is I didn't get my period back until 5 months post partum (without breastfeeding!)
About six weeks, but it stopped for a while at about four weeks and just when I was confident that it was done and stopped wearing pads, it started GUSHING out in spurts. Just when I had to go out and buy more freaking giant expensive pads, it stopped.
6w with my vaginal delivery, 6w with my first c/s, 9+w with my 2nd c/s (had to start taking BCP's to kind of reset my hormones because my bleeding wasn't letting up). It's totally normal to still be bleeding at 3w.
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Ugh I was bleeding what Felt like forever. I think by 6 weeks I was light/brown blood. I didn't get much of a break between that Ending and my first post-partum period
I bled for 9 weeks. I can't say that there was no chance that I didn't have my period during the end of that, but it was a good 9 weeks before I could securely go without any pad of any sort.
Re: When does the bleeding stop? (C-section)
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