Post-Pregnancy Moan Thread

Oh brilliant somewhere to moan xx

Baby ruby arrived last Sunday morning 5days early xx love her to pieces xx after a 30hr Labour it look only 6 minutes of pushing worth every second of it xx

Back and legs are killing me x my legs feel all tight as if I ran a marathon without training for it x

January x hope your period arrives soon on my 1st I was 11weeks before it came back x try not to stress too much about it coz that could cause it to be late xx

Don't you just love 4.30am feeds everywhere is so quite getting wonderful cuddles but at the same time exhausted :-(

My eldest Little girl who will be 2 in August has started waking during the night again :-( I know it's only the baby and a lot of it is the baby is in our room so she wants to be in bed with us too xx need to buy another bed and stick it to our own so we can all have room xx

Hope ye are all well xx

SmokeyEyes wrote: »

Not at all Dolbert thanks for the heads up!

Haha fingers crossed it comes for you soon January you feel all back to normal now after 8 weeks?

Lochia has my head done in (I'm just over 2 weeks after labour), honestly I just want it gone. For some reason it just keeps worrying me, I'm checking it all the time and today randomly it went heavy again and I got all freaked out, fiancé had to calm me down. Spoke to community nurse who of course said unless you're soaking through a pad in an hour and it's fresh blood to just go with the flow so to speak but I'm all freaked out, think I'm still hormonally fecked after pregnancy:) Now hate going to the toilet because I'll have to see/worry about whatever appears!

When did yours go girls?

Mine lasted 4 full weeks and still spotting 5 weeks later I hated it so much felt dirty all the time

SmokeyEyes wrote: »

Did you find yours went lighter then heavier and a bit all over the place? The more girls I talk to the more I see it's the norm just when you read the books they seem to state a strict heavy - light red - pink trend over a certain amount of days but seems like most girls go back and forth!

Spoke to gp today and she said it's normal for it to be a bit crazy, she felt my stomach and says uterus seems well contracted so didn't seem in the slightest bit concerned just said to watch out for signs of infection which is a given!

:)On another fun note think I have hemorrhoids, even after I go I feel like there's something there all the time like I need to go again?

If you are overdoing it.. Like rushing around scrubbing floors or whatever it tends to get heavier! I had a big clot after about 3 weeks like a chunk of liver thy almost gave me a heart attack but gp said it was normal! I thought the bleeding would never stop!

Quick question girls. I've packed my hospital bag and have put in a packet of maternity pads I bought in Boots. Are these suitable post partum or is there a particular brand you all swear by? Thank you xx

Merkin wrote: »

Quick question girls. I've packed my hospital bag and have put in a packet of maternity pads I bought in Boots. Are these suitable post partum or is there a particular brand you all swear by? Thank you xx

The boots ones are okay but I bled very, very heavily after my baby so I was using the hospital grade ones. The brand was BV I think. You can get them in chemists. I was able to use the boots ones a week or so later.

I got the hospital brand ones you can get them in any chemist I find them the best for the 1st few days after that any of the maternity ones are grand x if you have stitches though the always ones are not soft enough

Hi guys! Delighted to have a post-pregnancy moan thread!! I didnt bleed very much after the baby, I had a c-section but within 5 days the lochia was almost gone and a panty liner would have been adequate. Dont think my consultant believed me when I told him the 5 days.. but then again I got a period at wk 4-5 after the baby.

Did any of ye have the 6week check up? I did and Consultant wasnt recommending I go back on the pill as yet due to other blood pressure medications etc. He did ask if I'd thought about more kids and that better to get pregnant again early than leave it too late!! I'm only 31 but that scared me. I did have a bad pregnancy and agree that shouldnt have like 5 yrs between babies.. Baby currently has reflux and a sibling for her is last thing on my mind!

Its a good idea to get it checked out anyways Smokey.. no point worrying and stressing about it. There's enough to worry about with a new baby!

I dont know how I feel about another baby.. although some days I think it'd be great - I think there must be lingering happy pregnancy hormones. Then I think about it on a day I'm wrecked and baby is upset and it sounds like madness. DH and I had always talking about a 3year gap but I see the logic in what the dr was saying. But I want at least a year to recover before thinking about trying. I was surprised as he's is normally very conservative and would have thought he'd have been recommending the year minimum to recover after the c-section etc.. but he said getting pregnant after even 6months would be ok :eek:

Smokie you were dead right to get checked out hopefully all will be ok xx I had a small infection on my 1st and the smell was the 1thing I remember most this time I'm bleeding more then I remember on my 1st but I was told that can happen on your 2nd x although it is only day 6after baby x

The oppisite happened me. I got an infection after number 2. I stopped bleeding very very soon (less than a week) so mentioned to phn. She felt my tummy but wasnt too concered but examined me and recommended i go to gp. Gp said i had infection. Done swab, perscribed antibiotics etc. 2 days later it was back . I had to go back to gp a few times so they kept a close eye on things.
It then stayed until bout 5-6 weeks.
No 1 was more straight forward. Eased off then came back then eased off and came back . As others said the mors i done the heavier it was. Hope all is ok and you can relax about it now.