Bleeding help - sorry if TMI

[sweetpea8]

Hello

Just went to the loo and when I wiped there was some blood and when I looked there was a tiny amount in my pants too.

My LO is 16 weeks old and I stopped bleeding AGES ago. I have no period pain although I did have some period type pain about 3/4 weeks ago. My periods were agony in the past so don't really see how it can be a period.

Anyone else experienced this? Any ideas or advice?

Thanks

 

[sweetpea8]

Also still exclusively breast feeding if that makes any difference?

 

[aley28]

Childbirth can change your period! Before I had kids, mine were loooong and heavy and just really horrible. After my first baby, they lasted half as long, were fairly light and I didn't bleed at all at night, never got cramps, etc.

So it could just be your period coming. Perfectly possible to get your period at any time while breastfeeding.

 

[sweetpea8]

If this is what my periods are going to be like from now on I'll be very happy!!!
Thanks x

 

[sweetpea8]

Don't think it can be a period as I've had nothing else since. Any ideas?

 

[hellywelly]

If you are worried then go to your doctors - my LO is 9 weeks old and my periods / bleeding is all over the place - and am not worried xx

 

[sweetpea8]

Thanks hon. not worried, just curious! xx

 

[jadesh101]

Hi hun,

I used to have very painful and heavy periods, then I had DD1 and they got less painful and lighter, now I have just had my DD2 my bleeding stopped after birth around 3-4 weeks, then I started my first period the Thursday just gone, she was dead on 8 weeks that day. It is still a little heavy but felt hardly any pain at all, they say your first period after a birth is rather heavy, so I am hoping it eases on my next xx

 

[Tanni_Pants]

My LO is 15 weeks and I haven't stopped losing old blood, not a lot, like a tinged discharge...
Also EBF.

 

[Bex84]

Same has happened here, I used to have awful periods, I would be sick, get anemic and felt rubbish. My periods were really heavy since having LO they came back about 15 weeks, they are shorter, lighter and no longer painful. I am breastfeeding to. My dr told me before having LO that my periods might get better after having a baby. They also seem to be more regular