Have been meaning to ask this for ages - have always wondered and noone has ever given me a satisfactory answer.
By afterpains do they mean contraction like pain after the placenta has been delivered? If so do you only get them in second and subsequent pg's? Why is that if so? Are they bad?
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Afterpains only in second and subsequent pg's - true? and if so why?
barbamama · 31/07/2007 21:26
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