Last night (or technically, this morning), I was up at 2:30 am with a crying, wide-awake, refusing-to-be-soothed Harrison. When the four o’clock hour drew near, I thought “No way could this be worse.”
But then I got awful stomach cramps. Five minutes later, I thought, “Well, nothing could be worse than a screaming baby & diarrhea at 4am.”
But then I stood up. & realized that I started my first postpartum period. My uterus, awesome as ever, gave me a two-week sabbatical from bleeding. How gracious.
Miserable, I laid a drowsy blonde boy in his crib with his Soothe n’ Glow Seahorse, praying that he’d fall asleep on his own so I could crawl miserably into bed with Nate.
Right before I fell asleep to cramps, back pain, & a pounding headache, I realized that I have only had ONE period since August 2008. & I totally forgot what a bitch they are.
Aw, sorry that the bitch is back! I've almost forgotten what it's like to have one since being pregnant.
Ugh. I'm 8 weeks and counting of PP bleeding. If 1 more person complains about their 2 weeks I'm gonna throat punch them.
Oooh no I'm sorry! Awful awful awful. I got mine a little after I stopped bleeding, too. And I EBF. What….the…..Eff.
Hopefully it gets better because they say that PP AF is the bitchiest of them all.
my pp bleeding never stopped due to a piece of placenta being left in the uterus and it took an emergency D&C to figure it out.
Once that drama was said and done, AF showed up exactly 6 weeks to the day my water broke.
I'm at 4 weeks and counting of PP bleeding and dreading the first PPAF.
Welcome back to the club! I forgot what it was like to have a period because I had a baby in July 2008, had one period and got knocked up AGAIN 9 weeks after first baby was born. I had second baby in June 2009 and my second period in 2 years in September. Talk about a break!