https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:19:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293874 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:46:44 +0000 snowjewelz 2293874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PawPrints: Haha sorrry! I was hoping that I wouldn't get it back for longer too! But here it is. I hope yours won't be bad! It def *almost* makes me wanna just get pregnant again :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293867 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:41:39 +0000 PawPrints 2293867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh I do not want to hear this. I've been LOVING the menstruation-free phase of life while EBF. I may have suggested to DH that I should just immediately get pregnant again once we wean LO so I can continue to avoid my period for as much as possible. The experiences on this thread sound terrible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293862 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:35:03 +0000 mrsrain 2293862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first one was weird... Spotting for several days, then nothing for a couple of weeks and then several more days of bleeding. My SECOND one was a B*TCH. Very heavy bleeding and cramping and it lasted longer than usual. After that it seemed to get more normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293791 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:42:24 +0000 snowjewelz 2293791@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Truth Bombs: @avivoca: I feel so much better knowing I'm not alone and that you guys feel me as I change my tampon AND pad combo for the 5th time today... lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293783 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:34:44 +0000 avivoca 2293783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: Here's the post I wrote about it when mine came back: <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/first-period-postpartum" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/first-period-postpartum</a></p> <p>Apparently, it's normal. I practically yelled at my mom for not warning me that this could happen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293780 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:32:49 +0000 Truth Bombs 2293780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got mine around 8 months pp and legitimately thought I might be having a miscarriage it was so heavy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293779 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:31:25 +0000 avivoca 2293779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: Honestly, it looked like a murder had happened in my pants. The flow was so heavy that it got on the floor when I stood up. BUT, all mine since then have been normal, if not a little lighter than previous years. I also take Ibuprofen religiously because it helps my period stay a little lighter and helps with the cramps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293772 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:26:13 +0000 snowjewelz 2293772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: thats what I JUST bought, hahaha! Sigh, I had never stained my clothes/bed since high school! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293769 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:23:42 +0000 avivoca 2293769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: Target has some super long overnight maxi pads. They are beastly and you feel like you have a huge wedgie from all the padding, but it's the only thing that could contain the flow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293762 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:19:58 +0000 snowjewelz 2293762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BlueWolverine: wow, crazy! seriously, I'd go right back on the pill too if I'm not planning on another one! </p> <p>@avivoca: I know! I said oh man I gotta get like overnight ones, and I looked and they already were! And I was leaking out of the ones I got from the hospital! Hmm, maybe I should try to up my iron too </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293718 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:34:39 +0000 avivoca 2293718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: It was awful. I thought I was hemoragging. I couldn't even wear the ultra-thin maxis. I was wearing super tampons and the thick overnight maxi pads and still overflowing. The only thing that made me feel better was eating a giant hamburger (I guess because I needed the iron?).</p> <p>Thankfully, my periods since have been much better and very normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293712 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:29:34 +0000 BlueWolverine 2293712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First one was OK, but every month after that was CRAZY. Super heavy flow and lots of clotting. It was gross. Didn't stop until I got pregnant again, and after this pregnancy, I'm going on whatever birth control will make my period disappear. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293708 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:26:37 +0000 BandDmommy 2293708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine was normal but I got AF like 8 weeks PP. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293668 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:00:53 +0000 snowjewelz 2293668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: Ohh gotcha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293664 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:59:32 +0000 Mrs D 2293664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine was actually pretty normal. 1-2 days of light on either end with a day or two of heavy. Nothing abnormal to speak of! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293661 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:57:00 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 2293661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: no, not exactly. He said that the only way to regulate them was by going on the pill, and you aren't supposed to be on the regular pill while BFing. That's why it wasn't ideal- I didn't want to go on the pill OR stop breastfeeding! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293659 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:53:14 +0000 snowjewelz 2293659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: oh so she's saying breastfeeding is causing the super heavy period? I am still BF (for now...). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293645 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:45:19 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 2293645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: doctor told me to stop breastfeeding and go on the pill (not willing), but my naturopath put me on some different supplements that really helped. One was called FemBalance or something like that- I can check if you're interested. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293638 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:42:24 +0000 snowjewelz 2293638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: oh man, half a year of them! What did your dr say? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293633 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:41:01 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 2293633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First two were really light, then from about 6m pp to a year pp they were insanely heavy and long, to the point where I was seeing my dr and naturopath about them. They evened out after about a year pp. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293629 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:39:48 +0000 snowjewelz 2293629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@meredithNYC: Uggggh I'm only on day 2 :meh: </p> <p>@2PeasinaPod: I hope they get better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293605 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:23:25 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2293605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As bad as I remember it being from before I was on the pill. I came off after 15 years and had super long cycles, but once I had my miscarriage, they regulated to being 4-5 days and not too bad. PP, they were pretty heavy and back to being pretty painful.</p> <p>Can't wait to see how they are post tubal ligation after this C-section. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293602 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:19:27 +0000 Foodnerd81 2293602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Surprisingly mine wasn't bad. I used to have really heavy and crampy periods before going on the pill, so I was expecting the worst. But it was fine, then I got pregnant that cycle so only had one. </p> <p>Not sure of it would have been lighter since I was still BFing once a day? It was like 19 months pp, which was awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293601 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:19:10 +0000 meredithNYC 2293601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Super heavy and lasted like, a week. I've had - I think - 4 periods since then and 3 of the 4 have been similarly awful. Waiting for it to sort itself out :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293588 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:07:36 +0000 Lilbear 2293588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first one was fairly normal, but the 3-4 monthly periods that followed it were crazy heavy and ridiculous. Now the flow is normal again, but it lasts 4 days instead of the 3 day pre-pregnancy periods that I used to get. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293556 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 10:50:36 +0000 josina 2293556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think mine was actually fairly light (at 2 months pp)... the first was 5 days and then 42ish days till the 2nd, which lasted 7 days. Then I started the mini-pill and haven't had once since. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-was-your-first-pp-period#post-2293522 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 10:38:07 +0000 snowjewelz 2293522@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I just got mine back at 9.5 mo pp. It's like it's making up for being gone for this long. Soooo heavy, and cramping sooo bad. I do have heavy and painful periods since I was young, but prior to TTC I was on the pill for over a decade, and I got pregnant after 2 cycles off pill so I haven't had a for realz period in a lonnnng time. I feel like I'm bleeding more than I did after I gave birth?! </p>