https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 21 May 2026 01:59:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093691 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:25:00 +0000 MsLipGloss 1093691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. It's sort of the opposite that it was pre-pg. I am hoping it goes back to normal! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093687 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:23:50 +0000 mrsjazz 1093687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: The same. Although I assume mine hasn't come back full force because I am still nursing? I only nurse at night and in the mornings but I don't really know if that has made a difference.</p> <p>My cycle went from 27 to 24 days and my period is lighter. Pre-baby I was a super tampon girl and now I'm a regular tampon and panty liners gal. My cramps have eased up--I can actually take an OTC painkiller and it works! I was on prescription painkillers for my period pre-baby. </p> <p>It's still hell, though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093658 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:04:09 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1093658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@aprk: me too. Let's leave it at that, yes? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093520 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:57:36 +0000 hellobeeboston 1093520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dandelion: this is good to read -- I just had my first and it was scary!!! Hoping they aren't all like that from now on! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093307 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:00:35 +0000 Dandelion 1093307@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first period postpartum was a massacre! They went back to normal after that one, but I was seriously thinking about rushing to the ER with that one, until others on here told me their first ones were scary, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093227 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:58:48 +0000 jhd 1093227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>both my mom &amp; MIL told me they never had as much cramping with periods post-partum as before they had kids. hope your lighter ones stay! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093197 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:44:08 +0000 banana 1093197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine came back exactly the same...heavy and crampy. =\ Wish it was lighter! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093192 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:42:24 +0000 chopsuey 1093192@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Got my first period pp a weekish ago and it was the same as prebabies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093161 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:24:38 +0000 aprk 1093161@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have the opposite scenario as you ... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093155 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:20:29 +0000 cascademom 1093155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been on some form of BC since having LO a year ago. On a combo pill, it's back to its normal spotting like "period." I'll have a better answer for this when I go off of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093148 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:14:26 +0000 Mrsbells 1093148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: in the beginning mine were like that but then after several months it returned to "normal" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-period-change-postpartum#post-1093146 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:13:07 +0000 swurlygurl 1093146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Almost made this gold, but if some rando is going to snoop on me, then they get to read this too :)</p> <p>Before baby, my period was VERY heavy, lasted 8 days, and came with cramps as bad as labor pains for the first day (I can actually say that now!). This was the light version after going on the pill. I originally went on birth control before I was even sexually active because it was SO bad (vomiting for a couple days because of the pain)</p> <p>This is only my third cycle since I quit breastfeeding, but now it is so opposite. Lasts maybe 4 days, ZERO cramping, and if I was to measure volume, I wouldn't even fill a whole tampon (gross, sorry!). I have tested twice each period to see if I was pregnant because it is just so weird. They keep coming up negative, but I never believe the first test so I do it again.</p> <p>Anyone else have drastically different periods? I feel like a crazy person for testing (TWICE!) while I'm on my period, but seriously body, wtf?! </p>