Bright red bleeding 12 days pp

[Leids]

I'm pretty concerned about this but my midwife isn't worried. Just wanted to know if this sounded normal.

For the past 3-4 days I've had occasional bright red bleeding. Generally it's after doing too much and will calm down after I lay down.

Today I got up from a 2 hour nap and had a gush that covered my inner thighs and part of my pad (apparently my pad was in a poor spot so it got everywhere!). This was after not bleeding or even spotting for an entire day. The last time I bled before this was yesterday morning when I woke up and had a small amount of red blood.

I told my midwife both times. There are no clots, I don't have a fever, and I've been crampy. It's a bit tender but I've also been having digestive issues. :/ I've also had headaches for the past 5 days but was told that's likely due to hormones.

Midwife said to call back if I have another large gush like I had today and they'll check me out. I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this and everything ended up ok. I'm starting to get really worried.

 

[Rachie004]

I'm 18 days pp and my bleeding has only just lessened off and changed colour in the last couple of days or so, so from my personal experience I would have still expected red blood at 12 days pp. I would expect a gush when I've been laid down/sat for a while because the blood has the opportunity to pool.

I found wearing two pads really helped me, the bottom pad just seemed to add structure to the top pad for good coverage!

Only you know how you feel/how much blood there is etc. If you're really worried then go get checked out. Hope you feel better soon xx

 

[Teri7489]

Changes in the volume of blood lost is normal. It all depends on the activity you have done, how well your uterus is contracting....Obviously a large gush that is soaking you through is not normal but a heavy flow on and off is. xxx

 

[TXJen]

I had the same thing happen and called my doctor. She said bright red blood can be normal as long as I wasn't soaking a pad every hour or something like that. I am 3 weeks pp now and even though things are tapering off and I'm mostly getting yellow now not red, I do still see bright red sometimes.