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The sweating! Good lord I was sweating bullets

@glimmersnaps: Ha yes! And the subsequent odors...

I bled on and off for quite a while. It stopped around 2.5 weeks and started back around 3.5 weeks which I didn't expect! I also didn't expect walking up the stairs when we first got home to hurt so bad (I went too fast).

The 'rhoids! Oh my word. 2 hours and 41 minutes of pushing will do that to you.

I didn't think I would still be sore at 11 weeks PP, no one ever told me that was even possible! The hemorrhoids were a doozy...and the sweating at night..ugh. Plus, no one mentioned how hungry/thirst I would be while nursing.

@glimmersnaps: yes, the sweating, crazy hot night sweats and stinky mama-ness

I bled until 5 weeks PP. I didn't expect it to last so long! Then I got my period at 7 weeks PP.

the sweating, the armpit funk, and how i couldn't sit at all because it hurt so much so i had to lean on one butt cheek for 2 weeks.

I'm still pregnant but I'm subscribing because... half of this stuff I had never imagined! I'd rather know about it now!!!

@hilsy85: yes!! Im not having much blood any more but still so much clear discharge!

And I was not aware of the night sweats!! The first few times I had them I was scared I had mastitis because I thought I must be running a crazy high fever!!! And for the first week I cried every night when the sun went down. So weird.

Bleeding and the excruciating pain every time I had to pee for 6 weeks. How distorted my body image was after I had her.

Itchy reaction from the spinal
How bad the c-section incision would hurt
The night sweats
arm pits itching while breast feeding
Heavy period type bleeding lasting forever

The sweating!

Also, I had a weird experience with my bleeding...I was 2 weeks postpartum and I was taking LO to breastfeeding support group, I stepped off the elevator to the pediatrics floor and bam! I felt like I was peeing myself and couldn't stop, I ran to the bathroom and looked and blood was pouring out of me! I found a nurse since I was afraid I was hemorraging and she helped me back to the bathroom, but by that time the gushing had stopped. The blood had gone through my pad, my underwear, my jeans, and it was everywhere in the bathroom.

Since it stopped the nurse said I wasn't hemorraging, but that sometimes blood gets stuck up there and then being around crying babies and breastfeeding will cause the uterus to forcefully contract releasing it all at once. It was so scary! I was so embarrassed, they gave me mesh underwear, more giant pads, and a pair of scrub pants since mine were unwearable. No one had told me this could happen, just that soaking through two pads was bad. I soaked though the one I was wearing in like 30 seconds! I thought for sure I was going to die!

@Mrsbells: ugh yes I have the armpit thing too!!

@lemonlong that's so scary! Happy that it turned out
Ok

@smurfette not sure how to quantify sweat likbut I've had multiple nights where I had to change pjs after waking up drenched .

Honestly - I was surprised about some positive things:
-fast weight loss
-being LESS emotional than when preggo
-bleeding totally stopping at 2.5/3 weeks (I thought it would be longer)

Other less positive things:
- the cramping when breastfeeding!
- having to still take Colace 2x a day 7 weeks later or it's very bad
- the extreme hunger while BFing! I needed constant food/snacks or I felt weak!
- I had a little sweating the first week or two but only when I slept, 3 or 4 times I woke up drenched!

Seriously. I'm subscribing for future reference as well. I have never heard of a lot of this stuff!!!

@shopaholic: what?! You better post a picture of K! I want to hear all about it!

I'm going to make DH read this thread when the time comes! I need him to fully expect the crying and to believe that I'm actually in pain (if I am) and I'm not just moaning about nothing!! Oh and that I stink because of pp sweating not because I'm too depressed to take a shower!! This thread is so scary!

PP is easier and harder than I thought it would be. I did find PP to be harder than labor and delivery though, which is funny because I was so scared about the L+D my whole pregnancy. If I only knew. I didn't tear very bad, and my bleeding was very minimal, so that was easier than I expected. The night chills, emotional breakdowns, painful urination, and smelly vag are unwelcome surprises. Though I had a fair amount of pain in my downstairs, I found the emotional roller coaster to be way more difficult. I've never cried so much.