Has anyone had anything similar happen to them?
I’m 9 weeks postpartum today, and currently have a 22x11x10mm piece of retained placenta. I’ve been bleeding, with clots, the whole time since I had my baby, via c section.
I went to GP at 4 weeks with what I felt was an odd smelling discharge and a haematoma. She gave me antibiotics as a precaution and sent off swabs, which showed no concern, and that was the end of that. Odd smell did go after a few days.
I went again at 7 weeks for check up, she seemed slightly concerned that I was still bleeding and said to ‘see how it goes’ as it may be retained placenta. After reading about it, I called back the following day to request an ultrasound as it sounded like what I’d been experiencing.
11 days later I had ultrasound which confirmed the retained placenta.
2 days later my GP received letter confirming and sent me to the emergency gynaecologist, who initially gave me 4 options. One was to wait, one was to have medication to prompt the body to flush out tissue, and the other 2 were procedures to remove. I chose a procedure to remove after some thought. She then discussed with another dr who didn’t want to attempt to remove as it’s so small, so I’m back on antibiotics and waiting on another ultrasound.
I’ve not been feeling myself this whole time, my lower abdomen is still sore and I feel exhausted from the bleeding. I feel spaced out and confused a lot. I’m guessing the placenta must be breaking down, which is how I’m losing the clots all the time. Hospital think it will continue to come away naturally, but I don’t know how much longer I can feel like this. I feel like it’s really affected how I feel postpartum, I didn’t feel like this after my first baby.