I’m 3 weeks postpartum had to be taken to theatre for a forceps delivery with an episiotomy.
Lots of bleeding in hospital during my overnight stay, but settled by discharge and was getting progressively lighter (pink then brown blood lessening in amount each day).
About a week ago I lost a large-ish clot which had a pool of blood behind it that gushed out but then stopped once the clot had passed - very shocking but rang MAU and they asked lots of questions decided I didn’t need to go in and said only need to be worried if larger clot , heavy bleeding for prolonged time or feeling unwell (/signs of infection). A day or so after this had red bleeding again but not heavy, and quickly tapered off to very minimal brown staining in a pad until same thing happened again yesterday - although a smaller clot and less blood in the gush. Again felt absolutely fine in myself and bleeding stopped immediately but again left with red blood again although not much on pad, more when I go to the toilet and wipe.
Is this normal? Everything I read says this shouldn’t be happening by week 3!
As had a forceps delivery had to have episiotomy- When the midwife came to do a home visit at day 5 she did check my stitches and said some had failed and wound was gaping - she said it was clean, no signs of infection and just needed to keep doing what I was doing as couldn’t be re-stitched but was healing ok and would just take a little longer.
I’ve not had any further in person visits from the midwife but the rang and amongst other things was asked if I thought the wound was healing ok. Honestly I have no idea! She said as i had no pain and felt the swelling had gone down (had a huge dark deep bruise which was Very sore), could now comfortably walk without discomfort, and I wasn’t aware of a smell that it sounded ok - would the smell be really obvious? As I haven’t noticed anything.
I know 3 weeks isn’t really thst long given what my body went through but I’m just worried things might get missed or could cause long term issues!! (Probably just being paranoid!)
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Clots, postpartum bleeding and episiotomy
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Jen306 · 10/05/2020 16:30
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