AF after Baby

Hello all...

I got my first real period yesterday after Leopold. It is really
heavy. I usually don't have heavy periods. I feel like I am
flooding.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??

--
Daye
Momma to Jayan and Leopold
See Jayan and Leo: http://www.aloofhosting.com/jayleo/
Updated 28 Feb 2004

"Daye" wrote in message
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Hello all...

I got my first real period yesterday after Leopold. It is really
heavy. I usually don't have heavy periods. I feel like I am
flooding.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??

--
Daye


My periods have been way heavier, worse cramps, etc...since having kids.
Sorry.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??

I don't know but after every kid my periods got heavier then before with
allot more cramping so after 4 I'm really getting it bad.

I also just yesterday started having a real period since having Amanda ,I
was having just a day or 2 of spotting.

Like you it is really heavy worse then ever,I'm soaking a reg tampon in a hr
all day today and was thinking of coming here and asking if that is too
much.
At this rate I'm surprised I have any blood left in my body lol

--
Penny 12/16/70
Mom of
Blake 5/30/94
Anthony 9/24/95
Cody 6/21/00
Amanda 11/25/03
Austin Tx

"Daye" wrote in message
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Hello all...

I got my first real period yesterday after Leopold. It is really
heavy. I usually don't have heavy periods. I feel like I am
flooding.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??

--
Daye
Momma to Jayan and Leopold
See Jayan and Leo: http://www.aloofhosting.com/jayleo/
Updated 28 Feb 2004

Mine were the opposite - much lighter and not painful at all after having DD
(I had endometriosis before I had DD). That is probably no real comfort to
you, but my point is that AF has been much different for me after giving
birth.
Maybe its just your body getting back into the swing of things.
Amanda

--
DD 15th August 2002
1 tiny angel Nov 2003
EDD 19th August 2004

Mine were the opposite - much lighter and not painful at all

Ditto. I think it's normal and common for your body's cycle to change after
childbirth.

Kari
(who hasn't had AF since Jan '03 ~ yippee!! )
mom to Kaylie (8) Noah (5) and Xander (6 mos)

"A&G&K" wrote in message
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"Daye" wrote in message
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Hello all...

I got my first real period yesterday after Leopold. It is really
heavy. I usually don't have heavy periods. I feel like I am
flooding.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??

--
Daye
Momma to Jayan and Leopold
See Jayan and Leo: http://www.aloofhosting.com/jayleo/
Updated 28 Feb 2004

Mine were the opposite - much lighter and not painful at all after having
DD
(I had endometriosis before I had DD). That is probably no real comfort
to
you, but my point is that AF has been much different for me after giving
birth.
Maybe its just your body getting back into the swing of things.
Amanda

--
DD 15th August 2002
1 tiny angel Nov 2003
EDD 19th August 2004


Me too. I had endemetriosis (in fact am missing right ovary and part of tube
due to it). I used to have horrible painful heavy long periods. After my
surgery in 89, they got better. After I had DS, they became regular as
clockwork unless I was under a lot of stress and they were shorter. I had my
first period after DS approx 2 1/2 mos after he was born and it was pretty
heavy but they became regular and lighter a month or two later. HTH

--
JennL
DS 06/26/98
1 tiny angel 11/03
EDD December 4 2004
--
Leader of the Cult of Worshippers of BiPolar Long-Haired Sexy Anime Guys
with Swords

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:08:55 +1000, Daye wrote:

Hello all...

I got my first real period yesterday after Leopold. It is really
heavy. I usually don't have heavy periods. I feel like I am
flooding.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??

When mine got heavier after having kids, I chalked it up to it being
the way things were.

Last year, I was dx'd with hypothyroidism, and heavy periods are one
of many signs. I guess it's fairly common for your thyroid to go wonky
during pregnancy and then it's supposed to get back to normal in the
months after birth. For some women tho, it becomes regular
hypothyroidism.

Since I've been on my thyroid meds, my periods have been much lighter
and easier to deal with.


Tracy

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:08:55 +1000, Daye wrote:

Hello all...

I got my first real period yesterday after Leopold. It is really
heavy. I usually don't have heavy periods. I feel like I am
flooding.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??

Probably. And just because this one is heavy doesn't mean they all
will be. Mine were always fairly light and painless before kids and
between kids, this time around they alternate between crampy and light
or painless and heavy which are weird combinations.


--
Cheryl
Mum to Shrimp (11 Mar 99), Thud (4 Oct 00)
and Mischief (30 Jul 02)

Sophie says...
"Daye" ..


Hello all...

I got my first real period yesterday after Leopold. It is really
heavy. I usually don't have heavy periods. I feel like I am
flooding.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??


My periods have been way heavier, worse cramps, etc...since having kids.
Sorry.

great
.... something to look forward to ...


--
Proudly presenting Bébé B
Born 20.Apr.2004

Daye wrote:
Hello all...

I got my first real period yesterday after Leopold. It is really
heavy. I usually don't have heavy periods. I feel like I am
flooding.

Please tell me this just my body working itself out after having a
baby. Is that it??

After Luke mine were significantly heavier but easier to deal with. A few
months after weaning they lightened up to a regular flow but the awful
cramps and pms returned as well so I can't win :-(

I have heard that he first 2-3 can be really wonky so there is a lot of
hope for you!

--
Nikki
Mama to Hunter (5) and Luke (3)