It can be bright red for some and everything is ok (unless lots of blood, continued bleeding, or bleeding with cramping) but usually it is brown. Mine was brown with two pregnancies, and I don't think i get any with one (or I forgot!). You know, now that I think of it, with my first I thought I was getting my period, so it was not just brown but some pink too. I was relieved to get my period but thought it was weird it was darker than normal. Of course it was not my period afterall andI love my now 11 year old to the moon and back. Hugs.