Spotting 6 weeks after giving birth. Normal?

[Jojay]

DS2 was born nearly 6 weeks ago.

Lochia lasted 2-3 weeks.

The spotting is not heavy enough to be a period, and very early anyway, as I'm exc. bfing.

Have had a bit of spotting last night and today, not loads, but enough to wear a pad.

What could it be, and should I do anything about it?

Could be your period. My sil exclusively bfed and got her period at six weeks. And every four weeks thereafter.

Maybe it is then. But it's very light, nowhere near as heavy as a normal period.

Didn't have this with DS1. Hmmm

could justbe hormonal, ie, kind of a period but not.

This happened to me in exactly the same way. Lochia stopped at 3 weeks then I had a period when DS was 6 weeks old even though I exclusively breastfeeding. I was puzzled and even asked on here about it but it seems quite normal.

DS is now 11 weeks old and I've not had a second period so I'm hoping it was a one off.

Probably a period. I had lochia for 5 weeks then got spotting about 5 weeks later - suspected a period and then got another couple of days spotting 35 days later , which is my cycle length. I am exclusively breastfeeding as well. I get nightmare periods normally but these are just a couple of days of light bleeding/spotting.I did get madly hormonal for 24 hours before the last one and I remember thinking if I wasn't breastfeeding I would think I was about to get my period and then I started to bleed -which confirmed for me that it was a period.

Wow, thanks everyone. I wasn't expecting it at all, but it seems it's not that unusual.