PP bleeding?
I'm almost 7 weeks postpartum, and I am slightly confused about how long I should be bleeding for. I had a rough vaginal delivery, and had to have an episiotomy and get stitches. I hemorrhaged. Little man had shoulder dystocia & got stuck, and was delivered via vacuum. It was rough. I bled the first couple weeks, and then it began to taper off into lochia. I had dark brown lochia and light pink/brown lochia for a few weeks. I bled darker red blood at around a month too, which my Midwives told me could happen. Last week on the day I was 6 weeks pp, my lochia mostly stopped. I didn't wear pads/liners for 3 days then that Friday, I was bleeding again. It was dark red at first and yesterday was a mix of dark and bright red. Today it's brown again. This is my first baby & im confused if this is normal?? I've been waiting (very impatiently) to have sex again lmao and i of course want to make sure I'm healed first but what gives?! Is this normal to be going back n forth between bleeding, lochia and nothing?? I thought when I delivet d him that they told me if I had any bright red blood to come back to the hospital. But my midwives didn't seem concerned when I mentioned it to them?? Also has anyone had sex when they still had lochia?
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