When To Call Your Doctor About Post Partum Bleeding

If bleeding continues to be bright red and continues to be a large amount. With each day postpartum the amount of your vaginal discharge should decrease and it should become less bloody.
If after the first few days you are still soaking a sanitary pad with blood every hour for more than four hours at a time, call your doctor.
If after a week or so of gradually lessening bleeding, you notice a sudden rush of blood that is bright red and that soaks more than one sanitary pad.
Passage of golf-ball size clots anytime after the first day. Passing clots the size of a grape is normal for the first few days.
If the lochia has a persistent foul-smelling odor. Normally, it should have no odor or smell like menstrual blood.
You’re experiencing increasing faintness, paleness, feel cold and clammy, and your heart is racing.
If the bleeding worries you, don’t hesitate to call your doctor.

August 8, 2013 August 8, 2013 Dr. Bill Sears