Hi Everyone,
I gave birth to my second son on 2nd May 2008, birth was like the first one very straightforward, no intervention and luckily for me pretty easy. However, my first son was 8,3 and second only 6,13. I asked to see the placenta and it was tiny, my husband instantly said somethings not right as placenta too small, i looked too and it was tiny, they said no alls fine. had to stay in overnight as has meconium, was feeling very faint and losing lots of blood and clots etc, they told me alls normal. 3 hours after going home passed clot bigger than babies head, called hospital they said stay at home and monitor it. Felt crap, had severe tummy pains, passing massive clots, midwives all telling m im fine, eventually on day 19 they agreed i had an infection and took a swab to send off to see what medicine needed. got home had massive post partem haemmoridge with just me and 2 boys at home (19 days and 20 months) just managed to put baby down as had just picked him up for feed when it happened, not strapped into bouncer, collapsed to floor, luckily my phone was in reach and managed to call mum and husband who came over straight away, husband called ambulance and they wanted me to get into back of emergency response car to go to hispital but then relaised how much i had/was losing and called ambulance as i needed oxygen, was taken to hospital and had to have emergency surgery think it was called ERPC to remove retained placenta, had 3 blood transfusions and 3 plasma transfusions, had to have warfarin etc too. Overall very very traumatic and i keep reliving it - apparently i lost a dangerous amount of blood and am a lucky girl! keep thinking of awful things like baby almost fell off table as was cryiong and i didnt strap him in, if he had fallen i coiuldnt have caught him, toddler had to watch in terror as i bled out across the floor once my joggin bottoms were soaked through, he stood next to me rubbing my back and was terrified!
Since all that has happened i am still having tummy pains regularly and they regularly reduce me to tears of pain. they feel like period pains, i had my 6 week check very late at 12 weeks as femaile doctor is only on every 3 weeks and they were fully booked and she wa son holiday so was very delayed. when i had it saw the nurse not the doctor anyway and she didnt realise i was actually 12 weeks though, when i said about the pain she said it feels normal but looks very sore still inside.
can anyone tell me if they had similar as im scared that something is still wrong?
Thanks
Shelz