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Breast feeding and bleeding

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KristinaM · 04/06/2004 23:12

Sorry to be so graphic but I don?t know who else to ask??????I had quite heavy lochia after the birth of my baby a month ago. By heavy I mean I had to use maxi nighttime pads and change them every couple of hours. This has tailed off over the last month, going from normal maxi pads to regular to panty liners. Also the blood has changed in colour much as it does with a normal period but it gets worse when I?m BF. Now at day 30 I suddenly have bright red blood again, though not as heavy as a period. I don?t want to ignore it in case it?s an infection or something I should worry about, but I don?t want to go to the doctor to be told it?s just my period!! When I looked at the pregnancy books they say that you shouldn?t have a period for about 4-6 months after the birth if you are breast-feeding.

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KristinaM · 04/06/2004 23:13

Forgot to say I've been on antibiotics (for mastitis), if that's relevant

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nicmum2boys · 04/06/2004 23:22

I had a period 5 weeks after birth of both my sons and was bf both times. I went to the doctor as like you I thought it might be an infection, but no, it was a period!! V dismayed as my friends who were bf didn't have periods for 10 months or so, but I had them right the way through. Doesn't seem fair somehow does it?

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KristinaM · 04/06/2004 23:29

OH NO!!! Tha's not what i wanted to hear Nic!!!I thought that one of the best things about pregnancy was the lack of periods (apart from the baby at the end of course!!!)

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suzywong · 05/06/2004 00:38

KristinaM
Hate to tell you that I was exclusively BFing with both my boys and got periods back at 6 weeks with first and 4 months with the second. Some of us are just made that way. Bummer isn't it?

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Heathcliffscathy · 05/06/2004 11:45

i have to add that i got my periods back four weeks after giving birth to ds (exclusively breastfeeding) and they've been regular ever since...luckily, i don't mind them, and also the pmt is less (altho you wouldn't know it from a thread i posted earlier this week!)

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KristinaM · 06/06/2004 23:06

Oh dear........I guess that means I also have to think about contraception. In the unlikely event that I EVER decide to have sex again