Swelling and Bleeding Question

Hi Sheena, Congrats again o your beautiful baby boy!!

Well I can remember the surrounding area being a bit tender...but I have fatty bits that hide my scar so cant remember having it puffy as such. But It shouldnt last longer than a couple of weeks. Actually the stiches came out in day 5 for me and I felt almost normal after. If you are concerned show it to your MW when she is around next time!

As for bleeding, I had a mild period like bleed for a week and half and then light bleeding for a week and spotting for another week or so. I think I had blood for almost 40 days after baby!

But every one is different.

Take care

My scar was kind of pursed for about a month.. I had disolvable stitches and it didn't take long for them to go.
It's still numb and sometimes gets really itchy in the lower abdo region even 8 months on.

As for bleeding, I bled in total for about a month but the first week was the worst [:xx]...no cramping or anything though thankfully

Sheena it took me about 6 weeks to come right totally. My tummy was all purple where they cut me, I had masive bruising and I was so sore. My stitches were also disolving ones. I can still feel lumps and hard bits in my tummy by my scar which I assume is scar tissue now. You can hardly even see my scar now, its about 2 and half inches long and is a thin pink line!! You will barely notice it in a few months!

As for the bleeing, some days I could only wear a liner as the bleeding was so light, other days I had massive clots and was flooding. It varied so much day to day for me. I wore a line till about 6 weeks after my c section.

Congrats on your baby boy too!

Hey Sheena, my bruising was really bad afterwards (was bruised below and above the incision upto my belly button and from hip to hip), so much so that they got the doc to check me out before i left the hospital, it took a good 2 weeks if not a little longer for the bruising to completely go, some of the bruises were so bad they were red raised lumps the size of golf balls. (I tend to bruise very easily). Nothing was infected though and each day it got a little better so midwife was happy that it was healing well and by 4 weeks I was all good.
My bleeding was heavy for the first 5 days and then became like a light period and I stopped needing to use pads by around day 10 which seemed quite early to me but midwife was happy that all was good.
Just take it really easy and even if you do feel better before the six weeks is up still take it easy as things are still repairing.

The first wto c-sections healed within a couple of weeks to the point that I was back our walking 5km a day. I bleed on and off for about 6 weeks, the more I did the heavier it got, it would go completely for a few days then come back again for a couple of days. This 3 rd c-section I have the solid lump about an inch either side and right across my insertion line. I also got period like cramps which again seemed to go with the more I did and even if I wore pants that sat in the wrong place. I've had two infections with this c-section, the first at 2wks was obvious in ways that it was red and puffy on the outside. The 2nd at 5wks I swelled up huge inside the whole length of my insertion line but an inche above it. Very very tender and fever like symptons, but without the red outside was harder to diagnose, however the antibioics helped so must have been.